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Miles Davis
September 11, 2020
Artel Great
Black Cinema Matters
Black films have championed Black lives for over 100 years—while white America studiously ignored them.
June 5, 2020
Jo Livingstone
The Radically Inclusive Music of Ornette Coleman
A new book about the free jazz pioneer illuminates the moral and political significance of the postwar avant-garde.
April 3, 2012
David Thomson
A Cinematic Revival of Britain’s Most Popular Mid-Century Playwright
May 19, 2011
Adam Thirlwell
Visionary Materialism
December 25, 2006
David Hajdu
Heroine
February 9, 2004
David Hajdu
The Body Eclectic
July 15, 1991
Gerald Early
One Nation Under a Groove
The brief, shining moment of Motown—and America.

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