For Hannibal Lokumbe, music is a profound source of spiritual liberation. A pathbreaking orchestral composer and visionary jazz musician, he composes resonant works that give voice to the freedom struggle of the African diaspora, the broader African American experience, Indigenous histories, and humanity. Many of his works address historical traumas, such as the Middle Passage, the Vietnam War, global environmental disharmony, and targeted racial violence, and focus on major figures, including Medgar Evers, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Dr. Kim Phúc Phan Thị, and Anne Frank. This innovative book demonstrates that Lokumbe’s musical compositions, created in collaboration with his ancestors, are multisensorial spiritual soundscapes that aspire to chronicle, heal, and liberate.
This is a captivating, vital portrait and spiritual biography of Lokumbe. The cultural anthropologist Lauren Coyle Rosen draws on several years of close conversations with Lokumbe, as well as his journals, to provide a powerful collaborative account of his remarkable life and work. The authors explore Lokumbe’s creative journeys and the spiritual dimensions of his art. They trace Lokumbe’s entire career, from his early years in the Texas and New York City jazz scenes to his widely acclaimed orchestral compositions. The book also addresses Lokumbe’s work in prisons and schools with the Music Liberation Orchestra, founded in the 1970s. Illuminating his philosophies of music, spirituality, justice, and freedom, this book immerses readers in Lokumbe’s many revelatory worlds.
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction: Musical Alchemy and Spiritual Liberation
1. The Passages of Youth in Texas
2. New York City and the Jazz Years
3. Composing the Spiritatorios
4. The Jonah People and Becoming the Work
5. The Music Liberation Orchestra in Prisons and Schools
Conclusion: “Pure Mind Has No Time”
Coda: The Living Temples
After Coda: “The Shadow, ” poem by Hannibal Lokumbe, 1976
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Over de auteur
Lauren Coyle Rosen is a cultural anthropologist, artist, and author of Fires of Gold, Law in Light, and seven volumes of poetry and art.
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