Music Reconstructed: Lara Downes’ Classical Perspective on Jim Crow – w/ Charles L. Hughes
Teaching Hard History
English - April 26, 2022 16:05 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsCourses Education History american ela english hasan history jeffries race splc war arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
From concertos to operas, Black composers captured the changes and challenges facing African Americans during Jim Crow. Renowned classical pianist Laura Downes is bringing new appreciation to the works of artists like Florence Price and Scott Joplin. In our final installment of Music Reconstructed, Downes discusses how we can hear the complicated history of this era with historian Charles L. Hughes.
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