THIS IS OUR MUSIC

This Is Our Music Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture Iain Anderson An excellent study of the heyday of one of the most problematic bodies of work in the history of jazz music. . . . Essential.--Choice This Is Our Music takes us back to that moment between the fifties and the sixties when a new music called free jazz took root in the coffeehouses and nightclubs of New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In this rich and evocative book, Iain Anderson meets the challenge posed by the music and follows its lead into the complex political realignments, shifting racial dynamics, and redefinition of art and entertainment that characterized the subsequent decade.--John Szwed, author of So What