Amy Absher s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting th

Amy Absher’s The Black Musician and the White City tells the story of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-twentieth century. While depicting

The Jazz Problem shows how high schools and colleges were the primary sites of this generational debate around jazz, the century's first cultural war. Schools w

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The symphony has long been entangled with ideas of self and value. Though standard historical accounts suggest that composers' interest in the symphony was almo