The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice

The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice
ISBN-10
0786494964
ISBN-13
9780786494965
Category
Music
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
2015-08-31
Publisher
McFarland
Author
Nicholas Louis Baham III

Description

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. For 50 years, the church has 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 an extraordinary African-American church and community institution.

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