
Published online:
20 January 2022
Published in print:
27 April 2021
Online ISBN:
9781479849697
Print ISBN:
9781479871032
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Bebop, Prison Masculinities, Black Internationalism, and the Nation of Islam Bebop, Prison Masculinities, Black Internationalism, and the Nation of Islam
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Malcolm X and Shorty Jarvis: Bebop, Masculinity, and Conversion to the Nation of Islam in Prison Malcolm X and Shorty Jarvis: Bebop, Masculinity, and Conversion to the Nation of Islam in Prison
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Fishing for Converts in Boston: Jazz and Islam in Temple No. 11 Fishing for Converts in Boston: Jazz and Islam in Temple No. 11
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Chapter
2 “Turn to Allah, Pray to the East”: Bebop and the Nation of Islam’s Mission to Blacks in Prison
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Pages
71–98
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Published:April 2021
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Turner, Richard Brent, '“Turn to Allah, Pray to the East”: Bebop and the Nation of Islam’s Mission to Blacks in Prison', Soundtrack to a Movement: African American Islam, Jazz, and Black Internationalism (New York, NY , 2021; online edn, NYU Press Scholarship Online, 20 Jan. 2022), https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479871032.003.0003, accessed 5 May 2025.
Abstract
Chapter 2 traces the development of the Nation of Islam and its first appearance in American prisons. It examines Malcolm X’s and Shorty Jarvis’s identification with the Nation of Islam in Massachusetts prisons in the 1940s and 1950s. The chapter explores how bebop jazz encouraged new performances of black masculinities and religious and musical configurations outside the earlier musical world of swing. It looks at Boston’s Nation of Islam Temple, which Malcolm X established along with black jazz musicians in 1954.
Keywords:
Nation of Islam, prison mission, Malcolm X, Malcolm “Shorty” Jarvis, bebop, Boston, black masculinities
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Religious Studies
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