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A four-thousand-year history of music that reveals how songs have shifted societies and sparked revolutions. “A dauntingly ambitious, obsessively researched labor of cultural provocation.” ―Los Angeles Times Histories of music overwhelmingly suppress stories of the outsiders and rebels who...

Host Barnaby Ellison Thatch explores the revolutionary 1920s: Black musical genius, Prohibition's underground culture, and post-war rebellion that created jazz and transformed American society. Discover the speakeasies, artists, and forces that made the decade roar. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

After the calamity of the Great War, there was a desire in Britain for escapist fun - the lights of the Jazz Age, radio comedies and the pictures were a welcome respite from the grim reality of the Great Depression. Yet the storm clouds were gathering, and Britain between the wars was a...

For fifty years, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival has been where brass bands meet gumbo, second-line parades meet gospel tents, and 350 dreamers became America's most soulful gathering. Join host Lenny Vaughn as he chronicles Jazz Fest's improbable journey from Congo Square to cultural phenomenon. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

Black Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959-1967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly.

W. Eugene Smith was a famous photo essayist for LIFE magazine and a suburban family man when he left it all in 1957 and moved to a rundown loft in Manhattan. The building had already become a popular hangout and jamming space for jazz players both prominent and obscure, and Smith spent the next decade documenting the music, conversations and personalities that passed through. This program, produced and hosted by Sara Fishko and originally heard as a 10-part radio series in 2009, pulls from the 4,000 hours of audio Smith recorded.

Welcome to The Big Break podcast, where we delve into the rich history of jazz, to celebrate artists, entrepreneurs and jazz enthusiasts alike. Join our host, Dr. Dina Bennett, well known ethnomusicologist and Executive Director of The American Jazz Museum, on a journey into the stories behind the art.