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Benjamin Barson

@benbarson5

Abolitionist historian and composer, postdoc with Cornell Africana Studies, art = politics.

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Malaika H. Kambon (@serious2020) 's Twitter Profile Photo

👀🇭🇹✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿 SAVE THE DATE! October 6, 2024 HAITI SOLIDARITY: A CONCERT & FUNDRAISER (Featuring the book launch of "Brassroots Democracy" by Ben Barson! ) Pls Share Widely ! serious2020.wordpress.com/2024/10/01/hai… AfricanDiasporaNewsQuick Sistah Vibrations Global Black Studies at Duke Walter Rodney Foundation Harriett’s Bookshop

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UK Jazz News (UK Jazz News) calls Brassroots Democracy' by Benjamin Barson "a deeply engaging and fine-grained analysis of the early beginnings of jazz." Read the review here: ukjazznews.com/ben-barson-bra… #ReadUp #Jazz

UK Jazz News (<a href="/LondonJazz/">UK Jazz News</a>) calls 
Brassroots Democracy' by Benjamin Barson "a deeply engaging and fine-grained analysis of the early beginnings of jazz."
 
Read the review here: ukjazznews.com/ben-barson-bra…

#ReadUp #Jazz
Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise (@jazz_and_more) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ben Barson: „Brassroots Democracy – Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons“ (Wesleyan University Press) 424pp. by John Stevenson review ukjazznews.com/ben-barson-bra…

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Featured in UK Jazz News 📰 calls Brassroots Democracy by Benjamin Barson "a deeply engaging and fine-grained analysis of the early beginnings of jazz." 🎷 Full review 👉 buff.ly/3YNtrbT 🛒 Shop here: buff.ly/3Z4PHj9

Featured in <a href="/LondonJazz/">UK Jazz News</a> 📰 calls Brassroots Democracy by <a href="/BenBarson5/">Benjamin Barson</a> "a deeply engaging and fine-grained analysis of the early beginnings of jazz." 🎷 Full review 👉 buff.ly/3YNtrbT

🛒 Shop here: buff.ly/3Z4PHj9
PilsenCommunityBooks (@pilsencommbooks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ben Barson, eli namay, Lyn Rye, Adam Shead, and Fred Jackson celebrate BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY with a discussion on music, improvisation and community organizing 🎶 pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/Ax7DZdJI-…

Ben Barson, eli namay, Lyn Rye, Adam Shead, and Fred Jackson celebrate BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY with a discussion on music, improvisation and community organizing 🎶

pilsencommunitybooks.com/item/Ax7DZdJI-…
Tejasvi Nagaraja (@tejnagaraja) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I was delighted to present my research, in two talks at Cornell. Grateful to colleagues and students, in ICM and Latino Studies, for the engagement and discussion!

I was delighted to present my research, in two talks at Cornell.

Grateful to colleagues and students, in ICM and Latino Studies, for the engagement and discussion!
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Jazz’s Historical Agenda as Protest Music in the Stellar Brassroots Democracy ➡️ tinyurl.com/BrssDmcrcy Benjamin Barson's excellent Brassroots Democracy details the beautiful and bleak ways that jazz music created the soundtrack of an emancipatory movement that lasts to this

Jazz’s Historical Agenda as Protest Music in the Stellar Brassroots Democracy

➡️ tinyurl.com/BrssDmcrcy

Benjamin Barson's excellent Brassroots Democracy details the beautiful and bleak ways that jazz music created the soundtrack of an emancipatory movement that lasts to this
Benjamin Barson (@benbarson5) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you PopMatters for this stellar review of Brassroots Democracy. "9/10."(!) "Brassroots Democracy inspires hope about what is possible under the bleakest conditions." Jazz’s Agenda as Protest Music in 'Brassroots Democracy' - bit.ly/3Vu8lOU

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🏆 PopMatters Best Books of 2024 Brassroots Democracy by Benjamin Barson has been chosen by PopMatters as one of The Best Books of 2024 📖 Read more here: buff.ly/41MRXgn

🏆 PopMatters Best Books of 2024
Brassroots Democracy by Benjamin Barson has been chosen by <a href="/PopMatters/">PopMatters</a> as one of The Best Books of 2024 📖 Read more here: buff.ly/41MRXgn
Jazz Journal (@jazzjournal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies And The Jazz Commons - Looking beyond Afro-European musical fusion, Benjamin Benson says the group improvisation intrinsic to early jazz was inspired by the democratic character of black emancipation jazzjournal.co.uk/2025/02/13/bra… via @jazzjournal

UW-Madison Department of History (@uwhistorydept) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Public lecture today at 12PM with Dr. Benjamin Barson (Saxophonist, Composer, Historian, Musicologist, Bucknell University): "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" lacis.wisc.edu/events-program…

Public lecture today at 12PM with Dr. Benjamin Barson (Saxophonist, Composer, Historian, Musicologist, Bucknell University): "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons" 
lacis.wisc.edu/events-program…
Spencer Beswick (@spencerbeswick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life—the greater is the store of your estranged being." 2/2 Karl Marx, "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844" marxists.org/archive/marx/w…

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Joshua Clover: "It is the character of bourgeois thought to preserve moral rather than practical understanding of social antagonism."

Benjamin Barson (@benbarson5) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today I learned that the Museum of African American shortlisted "Brassroots Democracy" for the Stone Book Award, in the company of so many brilliant and vital books. Winners will be announced in October. So grateful to the committee for reading this love letter to jazz.

Today I learned that the Museum of African American shortlisted "Brassroots Democracy" for the Stone Book Award, in the company of so many brilliant and vital books. Winners will be announced in October. So grateful to the committee for reading this love letter to jazz.