CLARION CALL: TOWARD JAZZ AND THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT.

The author discusses the development of jazz music before and alongside the 1960s Black Arts Movement that showcase the African American experience and aesthetic. Topics covered include its seeds from the African blues-strain that expanded into the Negro spiritual and gospel music by way of Christian hymns, and into the blues and jazz music genres. Also noted are jazz music's practice of improvisation that reflects freedom, and its styles of Dixieland, swing, bebop, and post-bop.