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Jazz Migrations
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Oct 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Music crosses boundaries between traditional and modern, local and global, personal and political. Take jazz — a musical form born out of forced migration and enslavement. We typically think it originated in New Orleans and then spread around the world. But today, we examine an alternate history of jazz — one that starts in Africa, then crisscrosses the planet, following the movements of people and empires -- from colonial powers to grassroots revolutionaries to contemporary artists throughout the diaspora.
This history of jazz is like the music itself: fluid and improvisatory.
In this hour, produced in partnership with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) — a global consortium of 270 humanities centers and institutes — we hear how both African and African-American music have shaped the sound of the world today.
Original Air Date: July 04, 2020
Guests:
Meklit Hadero — Valmont Layne — Gwen Ansell — Ron Radano
Interviews In This Hour:
How Meklit Hadero Reimagined Ethiopian Jazz — So You Say You Want A Revolution — Reclaiming the Hidden History of South African Jazz — 'We Are All African When We Listen'
Further Reading:
CHCI Ideas from Africa Hub
This history of jazz is like the music itself: fluid and improvisatory.
In this hour, produced in partnership with the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) — a global consortium of 270 humanities centers and institutes — we hear how both African and African-American music have shaped the sound of the world today.
Original Air Date: July 04, 2020
Guests:
Meklit Hadero — Valmont Layne — Gwen Ansell — Ron Radano
Interviews In This Hour:
How Meklit Hadero Reimagined Ethiopian Jazz — So You Say You Want A Revolution — Reclaiming the Hidden History of South African Jazz — 'We Are All African When We Listen'
Further Reading:
CHCI Ideas from Africa Hub
Released:
Oct 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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