Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. ix, 265 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. The John Coltrane Church began in 1965, when Franzo and Marina King attended a performance of the John Coltrane Quartet at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop and saw a vision of the Holy Ghost as Coltrane took the bandstand. Celebrating the spirituality of the late jazz innovator and his music, the storefront church emerged during the demise of black-owned jazz clubs in San Francisco, and at a time of growing disillusionment with counter-culture spirituality following the 1978 Jonestown tragedy. For 50 years, the church has effectively fought redevelopment, environmental racism, police brutality, mortgage foreclosures, religious intolerance, gender disparity and the corporatization of jazz. This critical history is the first book-length treatment of an extraordinary African-American church and community institution. (Back cover).

Subject

1. Coltrane, John, 1926-1967
2. Saint John Coltrane African Orthodox Church
3. African Orthodox Church.
4. Jazz -- Religious aspects
5. Jazz -- California -- San Francisco -- History and criticism.
6. African American political activists.
7. African Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Religion.
8. Fillmore (San Francisco, Calif.) -- History.

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History

Contents

1. Apostles of sound -- The self-representation and spiritual teachings of John Coltrane the Saint -- Jimbo's Bop City -- The Yardbird Club and the history of African American jazz entrepreneurship in San Francisco -- The Dr. Huey P. Newton experience -- The Yardbird and One Mind Temple and new church movements in the 1960s and '70s -- The Alice Coltrane experience -- The African Orthodox Church -- Anatomy of a miracle -- The Oscar Grant movement -- The John Coltrane University of Arts and Social Justice -- The battle against environmental racism -- The ordination of Pastor Wanika Kristi King-Stephens -- The apostles of sound Occupy SF -- Answering the prophetic call.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Language

1. English

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain