Another great piece by Ashawnta Jackson for JSTOR on Black liberation and its significant effect on Asian American jazz:
What does political empowerment sound like? For some musicians in the 1970s and ’80s, the answer was jazz. As ethnomusicologist Susan M. Asai explains, for Asian American musician-composers, this period was influenced “politically and musically [by] Black Nationalism,” which itself was strongly associated with Free Jazz. The art form “began to chart new musical territory that embodied [Asian Americans’] own political and cultural consciousness.”
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