Spirits Rejoice! : Jazz and American Religion.

Cover -- Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- Chapter 1: First Meditations 1 -- Jazz Death -- Sounds Religious -- "A Dirty Word" -- Listen with All Your Might!  50 -- The Chart -- A Mind of Music -- Chapter 2: Procession of the Great Ancestry: Traditions Jazz and Religious -- "A Definite Beat!" -- Late for the World: Albert Ayler -- Set the Record Straight: Charles Gayle -- Truth Has Come: Islam and Jazz -- Into the Unknown: Buddhism and Jazz -- Channel Musical Light: The Bahá'í -- This Moment's Forever: Scientology -- Some Nasty, Urban, Ethnic Shit: Radical Jewish Culture -- Imaginary Folklore: Jazz's Rovers -- Chapter 3: Shadows on a Wall: Jazz Narrates American Religion -- A Polyphonic Past -- A Holding Corporation Called Old America -- Jesus Christ and Guy Lombardo: Charles Mingus -- Tender Warriors: Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln -- A Lily in Spite of the Swamp: Archie Shepp -- Be the Poem: Asian American Jazz and Resistance -- "Astro Black" History -- Roots and Folklore -- Come Sunday: Duke Ellington -- This Song of Pain and Sorrow: John Carter -- Wynton Marsalis: A Coda -- Chapter 4: Urban Magic: Jazz Communitarianism -- A Place for Us -- "Survival Is Your Only Defense" -- "The AACM Was My Denomination" -- An Act of Giving: The Black Artists Group -- The Giant Has Awakened: The UGMAA -- Cleaning the Mirror: The Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church -- Truth on Your Instrument: Alice Coltrane's Ashram -- Pause. And Begin Again. -- Part II -- Chapter 5: The Magic of Juju: Improvising Ritual -- Hidden in His Music: Duke Ellington -- Mary Lou's Mass -- The Drum Is Magic: Afro-Cuban Jazz -- Play the Mountain: Steve Coleman -- The Machine Contracts: The Art Ensemble of Chicago -- One on One: Milford Graves -- Becometh Fissional Construct: Cecil Taylor 217.

Chapter 6: The Tao of Mad Phat: Jazz Meditaion and Mysticism -- Let the Thing Happen: Meditation -- The Next Pregnant Second: Indeterminate Relations -- Small Little Gods: Overwhelmed by Presence -- Fire Being Sound: Mysticism -- Chapter 7: Other Planes of There: Jazz Cosmologies and Metaphysis -- "Space Church": Ornette Coleman and Harmolodics -- The Horizontal Man: George Russell and the Lydian Chromatic Concept -- A Super Highway to the Cosmics: Anthony Braxton's Tri-Axium System -- Another Dimension in Music: Wadada Leo Smith's Ankhrasmation -- "One Organ of Total Comprehension" -- Chapter 8: "Spirits Rejoice!": Beyond "Religion -- The Reality of the Sweating Brow -- Something Clean, Sparkling, Elusive -- Repeat This Mystery -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Bibliography -- Magazines and Periodicals -- Newspapers -- Web archives -- Filmography -- Discography -- Books, Book chapters, and Articles -- Index.

Spirits Rejoice! takes its name from a record by jazz saxophonist of the mid- 1960s, Albert Ayler--later used, with an exclamation point added, by Louis Moholo-Moholo--and is appropriated in Jason Bivins's book to express the overlap of religion and jazz music through history. Bivins explores themes that have resounded throughout the musical genre that are also integral to the practice of religions in the United States.

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