Abolitionist historian and composer, postdoc with Cornell Africana Studies, art = politics.
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Thank you, @caribphil! It is an honor to be in such distinguished company.
Congratulations to Benjamin Barson! His book, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons, is the winner of the Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award! Read more: caribbeanphilosophy.org/nico…
Today I learned that the Museum of African American shortlisted "Brassroots Democracy" for the Stone Book Award, in the company of so many brilliant and vital books. Winners will be announced in October. So grateful to the committee for reading this love letter to jazz.
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Joshua Clover: "It is the character of bourgeois thought to preserve moral rather than practical understanding of social antagonism."
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"The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life—the greater is the store of your estranged being." 2/2
Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844"
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Public lecture today at 12PM with Dr. Benjamin Barson (Saxophonist, Composer, Historian, Musicologist, Bucknell University): "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons"
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Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies And The Jazz Commons - Looking beyond Afro-European musical fusion, Benjamin Benson says the group improvisation intrinsic to early jazz was inspired by the democratic character of black emancipation
jazzjournal.co.uk/2025/02/13… via @jazzjournal
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Now, words and music:
the presentation of ‘Brassroots Democracy’ by Benjamin Barson at the @IISG_Amsterdam
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🏆 PopMatters Best Books of 2024
Brassroots Democracy by Benjamin Barson has been chosen by @PopMatters as one of The Best Books of 2024 📖 Read more here: buff.ly/41MRXgn
Review of Brassroots Democracy in the Journal of Jazz Studies. "This sprawling and pioneering text is perhaps only the beginning of not just a new outlook on jazz scholarship but an invigorated musicology that engages with its site of research literally from the ground up."
Honored that Brassroots Democracy is named a “best book of 2024” in @PopMatters!
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Jazz’s Historical Agenda as Protest Music in the Stellar Brassroots Democracy
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Benjamin Barson's excellent Brassroots Democracy details the beautiful and bleak ways that jazz music created the soundtrack of an emancipatory movement that lasts to this day. #PMPick #BestBooks2024
Thank you @PopMatters for this stellar review of Brassroots Democracy. "9/10."(!) "Brassroots Democracy inspires hope about what is possible under the bleakest conditions."
Jazz’s Agenda as Protest Music in 'Brassroots Democracy' - bit.ly/3Vu8lOU
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I was delighted to present my research, in two talks at Cornell.
Grateful to colleagues and students, in ICM and Latino Studies, for the engagement and discussion!
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LIFE || Brassroots Democracy dailycampus.com/2024/11/12/b…
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UK Jazz News (@LondonJazz) calls
Brassroots Democracy' by Benjamin Barson "a deeply engaging and fine-grained analysis of the early beginnings of jazz."
Read the review here: ukjazznews.com/ben-barson-br…
#ReadUp #Jazz
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Ben Barson: „Brassroots Democracy – Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons“ (Wesleyan University Press) 424pp.
by John Stevenson
review ukjazznews.com/ben-barson-br…
