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Jazz and Modern Africa: Drum Wars
November 19, 2003
Robin Kelley professor, African American Studies, Columbia

Columbia University Professor Robin Kelley discusses what it means to be an African jazz musician, and what political and commercial strings are attached to that description.

Art & Architecture | Culture & Identity
African | African influence | jazz | African American | Criticism | Art History | Music | Race
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Harvard Du Bois Institute
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Image of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
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Publisher: Beacon Press (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 224 pages
Image of Race Rebels : Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class
Author: Robin D. G. Kelley
Publisher: Free Press (1996)
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Binding: Paperback, 192 pages
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