The Coltrane Church - Nicholas Louis Baham III

The Coltrane Church

Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice
Buch | Softcover
276 Seiten
2015
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9496-5 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
The John Coltrane Church began in 1965, when Franzo and Marina King attended a performance of the John Coltrane Quartet at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop and saw a vision of the Holy Ghost as Coltrane took the bandstand. This critical history is the first book-length treatment of the evolution, beliefs and practices of an extraordinary African-American church and community institution.
The John Coltrane Church began in 1965, when Franzo and Marina King attended a performance of the John Coltrane Quartet at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop and saw a vision of the Holy Ghost as Coltrane took the bandstand. Celebrating the spirituality of the late jazz innovator and his music, the storefront church emerged during the demise of black-owned jazz clubs in San Francisco, and at a time of growing disillusionment with counter-culture spirituality following the 1978 Jonestown tragedy.

The ideology of the church was refined through alliances with the Black Panther Party, Alice Coltrane, the African Orthodox Church and the Nation of Islam. For 50 years, the church has - in the name of its patron saint, John Coltrane - effectively fought redevelopment, environmental racism, police brutality, mortgage foreclosures, religious intolerance, gender disparity and the corporatization of jazz. This critical history is the first book-length treatment of the evolution, beliefs and practices of an extraordinary African-American church and community institution.

Nicholas Louis Baham III is a professor of Ethnic Studies at California State University East Bay, USA and teaches courses in African American Studies and Genders & Sexualities in Communities of Color. He has a growing body of published journal articles on the Coltrane Church, African American musical and religious expression, and James Baldwin. He lives in Castro Valley, California, USA.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Apostles of Sound

2. The ­Self-Representation and Spiritual Teachings of John Coltrane the Saint

3. Jimbo’s Bop City

4. The Yardbird Club and the History of African American Jazz Entrepreneurship in San Francisco

5. The Dr. Huey P. Newton Experience

6. The Yardbird and One Mind Temple and New Church Movements in the 1960s and ’70s

7. The Alice Coltrane Experience

8. The African Orthodox Church

9. Anatomy of a Miracle

10. The Oscar Grant Movement

11. The John Coltrane University of Arts and Social Justice

12. The Battle Against Environmental Racism

13. The Ordination of Pastor Wanika Kristi ­King-Stephens

14. The Apostles of Sound Occupy SF

15. Answering the Prophetic Call

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo 32 photographs
Verlagsort Jefferson, NC
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 384 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Allgemeines / Lexika
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Christentum
ISBN-10 0-7864-9496-4 / 0786494964
ISBN-13 978-0-7864-9496-5 / 9780786494965
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