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Racism, capitalism, organized crime: Why MLToday reviewed Gerald Horne’s “Jazz and Justice”

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Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music
456 pp, $27 pbk, ISBN 978-1-58367-785-8
By Gerald Horne

Reviewed by Daniel Rosenberg

“Horne argues that that history of jazz was marked not only by its evolving styles but by the forms of racial exploitation and discrimination experienced by Black artists and their various ways of struggling against this racism. The first chapter is thus titled “Original Jelly Roll Blues,” exploring the origins of racism in jazz at its New Orleans foundations….”

Read the review at Marxism-Leninism Today

Jazz and Justice: Racism and the Political Economy of the Music by Gerald Horne

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