9 “Love, Like Jazz, Is a Four Letter Word”: Jazz and the Counterculture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction: Hard Bop and the Impulse to Freedom 1
6. PART ONE. A New Intellectual Vernacular
7. 1 Birth of the Cool: The Early Career of the Hipster 29
8. 2 Radicalism by Another Name: The White Negro Meets the Black Negro 61
9. PART TWO. Redefining Youth Culture
10. 3 Riot on a Summer’s Day: White Youth and the Rise of the Jazz Festival 99
11. 4 The Riot in Reverse: The Newport Rebels, Langston Hughes, and the Mockery of Freedom 123
12. PART THREE. The Sound of Struggle
13. 5 Outrageous Freedom: Charles Mingus and the Invention of the Jazz Workshop 147
14. 6 “This Freedom’s Slave Cries”: Listening to the Jazz Workshop 180
15. PART FOUR. Freedom’s Saint
16. 7 The Serious Side of Hard Bop: John Coltrane’s Early Dramas of Deliverance 209
17. 8 Loving A Love Supreme: Coltrane, Malcolm, and the Revolution of the Psyche 244
18. PART FIVE. In and Out of the Whirlwind
19. 9 “Love, Like Jazz, Is a Four Letter Word”: Jazz and the Counterculture 271
20. 10 The Road to “Soul Power”: The Many Ends of Hard Bop 302
21. Notes 339
22. Acknowledgments 377
23. Index 381