Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. INTRODUCTION Musical Alchemy and Spiritual Liberation 1
4. 1 THE PASSAGES OF YOUTH IN TEXAS 12
5. 2 NEW YORK CITY AND THE JAZZ YEARS 44
6. 3 COMPOSING THE SPIRITATORIOS 93
7. 4 THE JONAH PEOPLE AND BECOMING THE WORK 117
8. 5 THE MUSIC LIBERATION ORCHESTRA IN PRISONS AND SCHOOLS 168
9. CONCLUSION “Pure Mind Has No Time” 183
10. CODA The Living Temples 201
11. After Coda: “The Shadow,” poem by Hannibal Lokumbe, 1976 205
12. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 207
13. NOTES 211
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 233