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Articles in Arts in Society tagged with Music

Pitchfork is dead, but good reviewing doesn’t have to die with it.

Eli Zeger

Thelonious Monk lost (and found) in Paris.

Robin D. G. Kelley

From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.

Nojang Khatami

Robin D. G. Kelley and Bongani Madondo honor the writer's life, work, and legacy.

Bongani Madondo, Robin D. G. Kelley
The field is reckoning with a long legacy of racial exclusion, despite its universalist claims.
Douglas Shadle

Sixty years ago, a pathbreaking jazz album from Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, and Oscar Brown, Jr., fused politics and art in the fight for Black liberation. Black artists are taking similar strides today.

Michael Reagan
A Sun Ra tribute concert by a member of the pathbreaking pop group Labelle leads to reflections on how Black women artists and scientists have often been at the vanguard of their disciplines—though most are still awaiting due recognition.
Emily Lordi
The Sacred Black Masculine in My Life
Tyehimba Jess

Through online fan communities and digital platforms like TikTok, popular music is finding powerful new ways to shape everyday activism, protest, and resistance.

Byrd McDaniel
Robin D. G. Kelley talks with musician Vijay Iyer about systems of oppression, the responsibility of artists, and how jazz sells proximity to blackness to white people.
Vijay Iyer, Robin D. G. Kelley
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