Frank Kofsky
{{Short description|American historian (1935–1997)}}
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Frank Kofsky (1935–1997) was an American Marxist historian, author, and Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento, from 1969 until his death.{{cite web |last1=Pimsleur |first1=J.L. |title=Frank Kofsky |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Frank-Kofsky-2793270.php |website=SFGate |access-date=1 March 2022 |date=26 November 1997}} A musician himself, Kofsky also wrote several books on jazz, mainly concentrating on the avant-garde of the 1960s and the relationship between musicians and the industry on which they depend.{{cite news |title=FRANK KOFSKY, 62, HISTORIAN, CRITIC OF U.S., A FAN OF JAZZ |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1997-12-06-9712050501-story.html |access-date=1 March 2022 |agency=The New York Times |date=6 December 1997}}
In the liner notes for the Impulse! release of The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (A(S)-85), Kofsky gives an analysis on the transition from bop to the avant garde as it relates to Coltrane's career.
Works
- Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation (1993: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995). {{ISBN|978-0-312-12329-1}}
- Black Nationalism and the Revolution in Music (1971); expanded and revised as John Coltrane and the Jazz Revolution of the 1960s (Pathfinder Press, 1998). {{ISBN|978-0-87348-857-0}}
- Black Music, White Business: Illuminating the History and Political Economy of Jazz (Pathfinder Press, 1998). {{ISBN|978-0-87348-859-4}}
- Lenny Bruce: The Comedian as Social Critic and Secular Moralist (Anchor Foundation, 1974). {{ISBN|978-0-913460-32-0}}
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Category:American music historians
Category:California State University, Sacramento faculty
Category:American Marxist historians
Category:American male non-fiction writers
Category:20th-century American historians