{"product_id":"jazz-culture-pascal-bokar-thiam-9798871150870","title":"Jazz, Culture \u0026 Social Justice; Soundtrack of America's Art Form","description":"While hundreds of books have been written about the history of Jazz and begin in New Orleans, LA in 1865, Dr. Pascal Bokar Thiam's book is the only one that makes so clearly the connection between the cultural standards of aesthetics of West Africa's great medieval empires Ghana, Mali and Songhai and what they contributed to the identity markers of America's art form Jazz through the development of the culture and the music of the Delta Blues away from the canons of Europe. Dr. Thiam's point is illustrated when he quotes the great Malian guitarist from Timbuktu, Mali, Ali Farka Toure who said \"\u003ci\u003eIn anthropology, Black Americans... that does not exist, but they are Blacks in America which means that... they came with their culture\"\u003c\/i\u003e and Dr. Thiam to add \u003ci\u003e\"However horrific the Middle Passage was...no one, absolutely not a single West African bound for the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade forgot his\/her culture in sixty days, particularly given the fact that America's oldest string instrument i.e. the banjo is from West Africa\".\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pascal Bokar Thiam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798871150870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.73d","brand":"Pascal Bokar Thiam","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852650197247,"sku":"9798871150870","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jazz-culture-pascal-bokar-thiam-9798871150870","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}