In The Wake - Jazz FM Voices
How jazz music resonates with grief, refusal, and abolition in the global Black radical sound tradition.
Last updated 23rd Jun 2021
Kamara Dyer Simms explores how jazz music resonates with grief, refusal and abolition in the Black radical sound tradition, in the wake of George Floyd’s death and many, many others.
"Concentrating on Blackness on a global scale in the specific contexts of Black America, Black Britain, and Black South Africa, we are thinking through how the jazz tradition is interconnected with the fight towards justice in the wake of George Floyd’s death as well as countless others - the names of people we know - Bryonna Taylor, Ma’Khia Bryant, Mark Duggan, Joy Gardner, Sarah Reed, Shukri Abdi, Uyinene Mrwetyana, Karabo Mokoena, Nare Mphela - and the names of people we don’t know. "
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