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Amirtha V. Kidambi

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Universal Consciousness: Black Music, Hindu Thought, and Decolonizing the Spirit

Journal of Transnational American Studies September 5, 2026 Amirtha V. Kidambi

This article examines the impact of Neo-Vedanta philosophy on Black jazz musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, with a special focus on Alice Coltrane. By using what I have come to understand as a decolonial analysis, I situate the artists whose works I discuss in the context of a wider decolonial turn in the late twentieth century. In addition to tracing the transmission of Neo-Vedanta philosophy,...