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Dreams in Double Time: On Race, Freedom, and Bebop (Refiguring American Music)
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Jonathan Leal (Author)
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In Dreams in Double Time Jonathan Leal examines how the musical revolution of bebop opened up new futures for racialized and minoritized communities. Blending lyrical nonfiction with transdisciplinary critique and moving beyond standard Black/white binary narratives of jazz history, Leal focuses on the stories and experiences of three musicians and writers of color: James Araki, a Nisei multi-instrumentalist, soldier-translator, and literature and folklore scholar; Raul Salinas, a Chicano poet, jazz critic, and longtime activist who endured the US carceral system for over a decade; and Harold Wing, an Afro-Chinese American drummer, pianist, and songwriter who performed with bebop pioneers before working as a public servant. Leal foregrounds that for these men and their collaborators, bebop was an affectively and intellectually powerful force that helped them build community and dream new social possibilities. Bebop's complexity and radicality, Leal contends, made it possible for those like Araki, Salinas, and Wing who grappled daily with state-sanctioned violence to challenge a racially supremacist, imperial nation, all while hearing and making the world anew. 26 illustrations
About the Author
Jonathan Leal is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California and coeditor of Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision.
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- Contributor: Jonathan Leal
- Imprint: Duke University Press
- ISBN13: 9781478019985
- Number of Pages: 256
- Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
- Packaged Weight: 499
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Release Date: 2023-08-08
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Jonathan Leal is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Southern California and coeditor of Cybermedia: Explorations in Science, Sound, and Vision.
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