Acclaimed author Larry Tye digs deep in 'The JazzMen: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie Transformed America'
Author Larry Tye talks to WBGO' Doug Doyle about his new book The JazzMen
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'Beethoven was black': why the radical idea still has power today
Itchiness about Beethoven’s cultural dominance would continue to bring classical music out in occasional hives, and in 2007 Nadine Gordimer published a collection of short stories called Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. But the issue of race laid largely dormant until this year – the 250th anniversary of his birth – when against the backdrop of Covid-19 becoming inextricably linked with the Black Lives Matter movement, echoes of Carmichael and X were voiced, coming from directions nobody expected. William Gibbons, a musicologist at the College of Fine Arts in Forth Worth, Texas, had a...
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