Jazz In The Fight For Civil Rights

Talk of Iowa

English - June 17, 2020 22:34 - 31 minutes - 1.82 KB - ★★★★★ - 82 ratings
Books Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: New Memoir About Griff, Drake University's Retiring Mascot

Next Episode: Return To Learn: The Future Of Schools Post COVID-19

The impact of jazz music in America reaches far beyond the musical innovation of the genre. On today's episode of Talk of Iowa , Charity Nebbe speaks with Damani Phillips, director of jazz studies and associate professor of African-American studies at the University of Iowa , about the role jazz played during the fight for civil rights in the 1960s.