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As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977
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9781788160711 9781788160711
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5/23/2025

Originally released in 2018. 432 pages. Paperback. "As essential now as when it was first published in 1977, As Serious As Your Life celebrates jazz with passion and conviction. Covering the dynamic period 1960-1976, Valerie Wilmer powerfully evokes a remarkable revolutionary musical era that continues to inspire generations of musicians. Valerie Wilmer evaluates the musical careers of both the famous names of the time -- Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, and Cecil Taylor -- and those of less well-known artists. It is her unique approach -- placing the 'new jazz' in its political and social context -- that makes As Serious As Your Life a classic of jazz criticism. Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture."