Cosmic Music - The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane fieldnotes organized by the Hay Festival

organized by the Hay Festival

the ancestral and the avant-garde

beherbergt Rohstoffe und unzählige Lebewesen – es werden sogar Kriege um ihn geführt

all on the terrain of a half-historical

Mario Blaser is Associate Professor of Geography and Archaeology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the author of Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

Cosmic Music - The Life, Art and Transcendence of Alice Coltrane fieldnotes organized by the Hay FestivalAlice Coltrane is one of the most forward looking yet misunderstood artists of the last fifty years. For most of her life and even in the decades since her passing she was seen merely as the widow of the late John Coltrane, one of jazz's 'great men' who has long been worshipped with an almost religious fervour and devotion. Yet ever so slowly, that level of love and appreciation is also being bestowed upon Alice. Her influence can be felt on new