Hip Hop’s Amnesia by Reiland Rabaka (2012)
Considering the many aspects of hip hop music, Reiland Rabaka’s approach to the social, musical and most of all the political past of the style(s) is quite an enterprise. Even more so, if we consider...
View ArticleAmerican Allegory: Lindy Hop And The Racial Imagination by Black Hawk Hancock...
As you may have realized the Lindy Hop, that unique American social dance originating in the late 1920s US when jazz became the soundtrack of America, is back; that is, it is back again, and again and...
View ArticleLonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams… by Andrew S. Berish (2012)
Now, here is a really clever idea on how to research a jazz-related topic and not to approach it entirely the academic way. Andrew Berish, assistant Professor of cultural studies at the University of...
View ArticleSwingin’ on Central Avenue: African American Jazz in Los Angeles by Peter...
Just as New York had 42nd Street as the most important address if you wanted to play or hear first-rate jazz music in the 1930s, Los Angeles had Central Avenue. There, shortly before WWII, the...
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