The Untethered Tongue: Lifting the Black Feminine Voice in Jazz
What is freedom? Freedom is existing unrestrained in thoughts, actions, and achievements but is not absolved from the world’s reactions
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Billie Holiday and the Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of
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Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity
I first encountered Amiri Baraka in Fred Moten’s In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. I know
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Mourning the Loss of My Father: Wynton Marsalis on the Passing of Ellis Marsalis Jr.
*This post appeared on Wynton Marsalis‘ blog and appears here with his permission. My daddy passed away last night (April
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Jazz and Justice: A New Book on Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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