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In Spirits Rejoice! Jason Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music; and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped.Much writing about jazz tends toward glorified discographies or impressionistic descriptions of the actual sounds. Rather than providing a history; or series of biographical entries; Spirits Rejoice! takes to heart a central characteristic of jazz itself and improvises; generating a collection of themes; pursuits; reoccurring foci; and interpretations. Bivins riffs on interviews; liner notes; journals; audience reception; and critical commentary; producing a work that argues for the centrality of religious experiences to any legitimate understanding of jazz; while also suggesting that jazz opens up new interpretations of American religious history. Bivins examines themes such as musical creativity as related to specific religious traditions; jazz as a form of ritual and healing; and jazz cosmologies and metaphysics. Spirits Rejoice! connects Religious Studies to Jazz Studies through thematic portraits; and a vast number of interviews to propose a new; improvisationally fluid archive for thinking about religion; race; and sound in the United States. Bivinss conclusions explore how the sound of spirits rejoicing challenges not only prevailing understandings of race and music; but also the way we think about religion.Spirits Rejoice! is an essential volume for any student of jazz; American religion; or American culture.