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creator of the Smithsonian Museum’s “Programs in Black Culture,” and one of the leading authorities on Black American music culture,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
Bernice Johnson Reagon,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
his work is primarily arranged into three discernible periods—his early or harmonic period, his middle or modal period, his late or experimental period—to distinguish and weigh the significance of each.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
In other words, Coltrane is profoundly shaped by his generational location and his class position.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
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youtube.comthe everyday world in which he lived and worked: his formation in the segregated South of the 1930s, his early losses—his father’s death at an early age; a sojourn that exchanged an insular southern life for an urban northern one; the ceaseless search for a spiritual life that greatly expanded but was ultimately rooted in the southern black Christi
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