Comments on: Black and Tan Fantasy

By: Bluenatic

Bluenatic — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:39:10 +0000

720 pages? Yeesh! I love me some Edward Kennedy Ellington, but I don’t really have a month to invest in this book.

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:30:03 +0000

I need to read the book before I can comment, but I will say that the dynamics hinted at would not be possible without a fair amount of critical think on both sides. I think we’ve got that down pat around here, so I look forward to discussing it >;)

By: ms october

ms october — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:21:11 +0000

ha, i saw this headline and i was like alex must have read his new yorker from last week.
really was a great and interesting piece about duke and the confluence of race and music.
i saw the play race last weekend and at the end of act 1 the black female lawyer said the case was about sex; the white male partner said it was about race – and they are the same thing; in some ways music and race could be thought of like that as well.

[1] i agree – this article would have added an interesting framework to that discussion.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:19:55 +0000

This book looks really interesting too.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:19:44 +0000

Duke Sheffield, nice!

By: Yankster

Yankster — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:03:26 +0000

Absolutely great piece. As a resident of Washington, DC, it shows how much too rounds of riots destroyed a great artistic city and how much further the impressive current renaissance has to go to approach where this city was a 100 years ago. and that’s not even getting into Duke’s approach to race. This article would have been a great side note to the great banter Sheffield race discussion of 2008(?)