Scott Saul is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and host of the books and arts podcast Chapter & Verse.

These days jazz seems so marginalized that it’s bracing to read a book that shows so clearly how and why jazz is relevant to larger social, political, and cultural issues… [Saul’s] analysis of the 1960 riot at the Newport Jazz Festival and the different ways jazz critics, social commentators, and black intellectuals and artists—including poet Langston Hughes and bassist Charles Mingus—reacted to it, is some of the most insightful writing on the tensions between consumer culture and jazz culture, and the black–white racial divide that I’ve ever read. Saul also maps out the connections that artists and critics saw between the progressive politics of the civil rights and Black Power movements and avant-garde music… This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the wider cultural and political issues that have affected jazz in the past 50 years.

• List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Hard Bop and the Impulse to Freedom Part One: A New Intellectual Vernacular 1. Birth of the Cool: The Early Career of the Hipster 2. Radicalism by Another Name: The White Negro Meets the Black Negro Part Two: Redefining Youth Culture 3. Riot on a Summer's Day: White Youth and the Rise of the Jazz Festival 4. The Riot in Reverse: The Newport Rebels, Langston Hughes, and the Mockery of Freedom Part Three: The Sound of Struggle 5. Outrageous Freedom: Charles Mingus and the Invention of the Jazz Workshop 6. "This Freedom's Slave Cries": Listening to the Jazz Workshop Part Four: Freedom's Saint 7. The Serious Side of Hard Bop: John Coltrane's Early Dramas of Deliverance 8. Loving A Love Supreme: Coltrane, Malcolm, and the Revolution of the Psyche Part Five: In and Out of the Whirlwind 9. "Love, Like Jazz, Is a Four Letter Word": Jazz and the Counterculture 10. The Road to "Soul Power": The Many Ends of Hard Bop Notes Acknowledgments Index

Scott Saul is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and host of the books and arts podcast Chapter & Verse.

These days jazz seems so marginalized that it’s bracing to read a book that shows so clearly how and why jazz is relevant to larger social, political, and cultural issues… [Saul’s] analysis of the 1960 riot at the Newport Jazz Festival and the different ways jazz critics, social commentators, and black intellectuals and artists—including poet Langston Hughes and bassist Charles Mingus—reacted to it, is some of the most insightful writing on the tensions between consumer culture and jazz culture, and the black–white racial divide that I’ve ever read. Saul also maps out the connections that artists and critics saw between the progressive politics of the civil rights and Black Power movements and avant-garde music… This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the wider cultural and political issues that have affected jazz in the past 50 years.

• List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Hard Bop and the Impulse to Freedom Part One: A New Intellectual Vernacular 1. Birth of the Cool: The Early Career of the Hipster 2. Radicalism by Another Name: The White Negro Meets the Black Negro Part Two: Redefining Youth Culture 3. Riot on a Summer's Day: White Youth and the Rise of the Jazz Festival 4. The Riot in Reverse: The Newport Rebels, Langston Hughes, and the Mockery of Freedom Part Three: The Sound of Struggle 5. Outrageous Freedom: Charles Mingus and the Invention of the Jazz Workshop 6. "This Freedom's Slave Cries": Listening to the Jazz Workshop Part Four: Freedom's Saint 7. The Serious Side of Hard Bop: John Coltrane's Early Dramas of Deliverance 8. Loving A Love Supreme: Coltrane, Malcolm, and the Revolution of the Psyche Part Five: In and Out of the Whirlwind 9. "Love, Like Jazz, Is a Four Letter Word": Jazz and the Counterculture 10. The Road to "Soul Power": The Many Ends of Hard Bop Notes Acknowledgments Index

Scott Saul is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, and host of the books and arts podcast Chapter & Verse.

These days jazz seems so marginalized that it’s bracing to read a book that shows so clearly how and why jazz is relevant to larger social, political, and cultural issues… [Saul’s] analysis of the 1960 riot at the Newport Jazz Festival and the different ways jazz critics, social commentators, and black intellectuals and artists—including poet Langston Hughes and bassist Charles Mingus—reacted to it, is some of the most insightful writing on the tensions between consumer culture and jazz culture, and the black–white racial divide that I’ve ever read. Saul also maps out the connections that artists and critics saw between the progressive politics of the civil rights and Black Power movements and avant-garde music… This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the wider cultural and political issues that have affected jazz in the past 50 years.

• List of Illustrations Preface Introduction: Hard Bop and the Impulse to Freedom Part One: A New Intellectual Vernacular 1. Birth of the Cool: The Early Career of the Hipster 2. Radicalism by Another Name: The White Negro Meets the Black Negro Part Two: Redefining Youth Culture 3. Riot on a Summer's Day: White Youth and the Rise of the Jazz Festival 4. The Riot in Reverse: The Newport Rebels, Langston Hughes, and the Mockery of Freedom Part Three: The Sound of Struggle 5. Outrageous Freedom: Charles Mingus and the Invention of the Jazz Workshop 6. "This Freedom's Slave Cries": Listening to the Jazz Workshop Part Four: Freedom's Saint 7. The Serious Side of Hard Bop: John Coltrane's Early Dramas of Deliverance 8. Loving A Love Supreme: Coltrane, Malcolm, and the Revolution of the Psyche Part Five: In and Out of the Whirlwind 9. "Love, Like Jazz, Is a Four Letter Word": Jazz and the Counterculture 10. The Road to "Soul Power": The Many Ends of Hard Bop Notes Acknowledgments Index