Contents

• Ch. I. The Colonized Black Nation: The Basic and Development of Black Nationalist Thought of the 1960s and 1970s
• National Ideology
• Assimilation/Integration
• Revolution and the Decolonization Process
• Revitalization and the Re-Emergence of Black Nationalism - - Varieties of Black Nationalism
• Cultural Nationalism - - Educational Nationalism
• Religious Nationalism
• Revolutionary Nationalism
• Conclusion
• Ch. II. Culture, Jazz, and the New Black Music: Political Weapons
• Revolution on the Cultural Front
• Cultural Nationalism - - Soul Music as Nationalist Expression
• Pre-Nationalist Jazz
• New Orleans: A Case Study
• Imitators and the Commodification of Jazz
• Inclinations: Black Nationalism in Jazz
• The New Black Music
• Self-Definition
• Self- Assessment
• Economic Self-Reliance and Control
• Unity and Communication
• Ch. III. The Power to Elevate and Define One’s Own Identity, Consciousness, and the new Black Music
• Black Cultural Revitalization
• The New Negro: The Harlem Renaissance and Marcus Garvey
• Black is Beautiful: Self-Identity and Black Aesthetics
• "Jazz" : Another Name for Nigger?
• Ch. IV. The Power to Elevate and Define One’s Own: Cultural Revitalization and the Pursuit of a Black Aesthetic
• African Liberation, Frantz Fanon, and Black Cultural Nationalism
• Frantz Fanon and the Role of National Culture in the Decolonization Process
• Black Cultural Nationalism of the 1960s
• Black Arts and the Black Aesthetic
• The Black Aesthetic and the New Black Music
• Poly-Rhythms, Texture, and Collective Improvisation
• The Chicagoans. A Case Study
• Ch. V. "You Own It and We Make It": Economic Black Nationalism and the New Black Music
• The Economic Colonization of Black Americans
• The Economics of Jazz Music: A Brief History
• Musical Colonialism and the New Black Music
• The Recording Industry
• The Jazz Clubs
• From Commodity to Art: Economic and Artistic Control
• The Loft Movement
• Collectives
• Independent Record Companies and Labels
• Conclusion: the Impossible Revolution? Black Nationalism and the New Black Music
• App. The Tributaries of American Jazz Music