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Book Review: “Just Around Midnight” — A Revelatory Look at Race and 1960s Rock and Roll

Why did rock and roll become white? Music critic Jack Hamilton’s extraordinary new book provides a challenging answer.

By: Adam Ellsworth Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Harvard University Press, Jack Hamilton, Just Around Midnight, race, Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination, Rock-and-Roll

Dance Commentary: Misty Copeland, Ballet, and Race

Tomorrow, Misty Copeland will be American Ballet Theatre’s first African-American ballerina to perform the lead role in Swan Lake in New York City.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Commentary, Dance, Featured Tagged: American Ballet Theatre, ballet, Ballet West, Boston-Ballet, CityDance, Janine Parker, Misty Copeland, race, Swan-Lake

Author Interview: Historian Jason Sokol on Race and Massachusetts — From the Red Sox to Springfield

“I think a lot of people around town are fairly aware of the Red Sox’s checkered history in terms of race.”

By: Blake Maddux Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: All Eyes are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn, Blake Maddux, civil rights, Edward Brooke, Jason Sokol, race, Red Sox, There Goes My Everything: White Southerners in the Age of Civil Rights

Judicial Review # 9: Pushing Hot Buttons — David Mamet’s “Race” @ New Rep

What is a Judicial Review? It is a fresh approach to creating a conversational, critical space about the arts and culture. This is our ninth session, a discussion about the New Repertory Theatre’s production of David Mamet’s play “Race”, which revolves around the frenzy and fury generated by three attorneys who are asked to defend a wealthy man accused of raping an African-American woman.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Judicial Review Tagged: David Mamet, New Repertory Theatre, race

Dance Review: Race and Dance

Dance icon Bill T. Jones confounds expectations about race and the power of stereotypes in two new dance pieces. “Reading, Mercy and the Artificial Nigger” and “Mercy 10×8 On a Circle” by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company By Debra Cash Bill T. Jones would no doubt take umbrage at being compared to the white […]

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Featured, Review Tagged: Arnie-Zane-Dance-Company, Bill-T.-Jones, Dance, Flanery-OConnor, race

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