Jazz Migrations

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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