{{Short description|American historian (1935–1997)}} {{no footnotes|date=April 2021}} '''Frank Kofsky''' (1935–1997) was an [[Americans|American]] [[Marxist]] historian, author, and Professor of History at [[California State University, Sacramento]], from 1969 until his death.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
In the liner notes for the [[Impulse! Records|Impulse!]] release of ''[[The John Coltrane Quartet Plays]]'' (A(S)-85; 1965), Kofsky gives an analysis on the transition from bop to the avant garde as it relates to Coltrane's career.
==Works== *''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}} *''Lenny Bruce: The Comedian as Social Critic and Secular Moralist'' (Monad Press, distributed by Pathfinder Press, 1974). {{ISBN|978-0-913460-32-0}} *''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 Music, White Business: Illuminating the History and Political Economy of Jazz'' (Pathfinder Press, 1998). {{ISBN|978-0-87348-859-4}} ===Article=== *"The State of Jazz", "Black Perspectives in Music," 1977.
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