Articles by Nadav Haber

Race Relations and Their Expression in Jazz

by Nadav Haber
June 14, 2006

The word “Blacks will be used here to describe the Americans of African descent, and “Whites will refer to Americans of European descent. Our subject will be “black music , of which theologian James Cone has written: “It is an artistic rebellion against the humiliating deadness of western culture... through song, a new political consciousness is continuously created, one antithetical to the values of white society . We will show that until recently, black music has been able to accommodate ...