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The Fierce Urgency of Now
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-14 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz
Gateway to Equality
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Authors: Keona K. Ervin
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-07-28 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thirty years, the "Gateway
A Treasury of Great American Scandals
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Pages: 340
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Musical Models of Democracy
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Music's role in animating democracy--whether through protests and demonstrations, as a vehicle for political identity, or as a means of overcoming social divide