The Coltrane Church: Apostles of Sound, Agents of Social Justice

by Nicholas Louis Baham III

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476619224
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	07/25/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Nicholas Louis Baham III is a professor of ethnic studies at California State University East Bay. He lives in Oakland, California.
Nicholas Louis Baham III is a professor of ethnic studies at California State University East Bay. He lives in Castro Valley, California.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Apostles of Sound
2. The ­Self-Representation and Spiritual Teachings of John Coltrane the Saint
3. Jimbo’s Bop City
4. The Yardbird Club and the History of African American Jazz Entrepreneurship in San Francisco
5. The Dr. Huey P. Newton Experience
6. The Yardbird and One Mind Temple and New Church Movements in the 1960s and ’70s
7. The Alice Coltrane Experience
8. The African Orthodox Church
9. Anatomy of a Miracle
10. The Oscar Grant Movement
11. The John Coltrane University of Arts and Social Justice
12. The Battle Against Environmental Racism
13. The Ordination of Pastor Wanika Kristi ­King-Stephens
14. The Apostles of Sound Occupy SF
15. Answering the Prophetic Call
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index