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Remember Radio Raheem? He’s the boom-box toting antagonist in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing who’s continually blasting Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power.” ...
When segregationists urged whites to avoid listening to black music for fear of its irresistible appeal, they might have proffered Johnny Otis as Exhibit A of what they had in...
The National Endowment for the Arts hadn’t been established when Dizzy Gillespie ran for President in 1964, but it would just as likely have been on his agenda as it was Lyndon...
Mamie Moffitt and Her 5 Jazz Hounds, including John A. Byard, Sr., trombone My small corner of the world has been buzzing with Worcester jazz lore this week, so it feels like a...