Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION Musical Alchemy and Spiritual Liberation
  • 1 THE PASSAGES OF YOUTH IN TEXAS
  • 2 NEW YORK CITY AND THE JAZZ YEARS
  • 3 COMPOSING THE SPIRITATORIOS
  • 4 THE JONAH PEOPLE AND BECOMING THE WORK
  • 5 THE MUSIC LIBERATION ORCHESTRA IN PRISONS AND SCHOOLS
  • CONCLUSION "Pure Mind Has No Time"
  • CODA The Living Temples
  • After Coda: "The Shadow," poem by Hannibal Lokumbe, 1976
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY