Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Zebra in the Room
Much more work could be done fertilizing the fields of cross-cultural music, sowing seeds collected from the great touchstones of American culture – innovation, integration, risk, reward. The post...
View ArticleTheater Review: “appropriate”— Southern Gothic, Entertainingly Deconstructed
In appropriate, a talented young playwright turns mischievous literary homage into a work of exhilarating entertainment. The post Theater Review: “appropriate” — Southern Gothic, Entertainingly...
View ArticleStage Interview: Dramatist Jacqui Parker Talks About How Black Lives Matter:...
"Theater producers do not want to make their audience members uncomfortable and talking about race makes folks uncomfortable." The post Stage Interview: Dramatist Jacqui Parker Talks About How Black...
View ArticleFilm Review: Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq”—A Long and Sexy Sermon
Chi-Raq is a work of agitprop—preachy, strident, sentimental, even sacramental. The post Film Review: Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq”—A Long and Sexy Sermon appeared first on The Arts Fuse.
View ArticleAuthor Interview: David Livingstone Smith on Dehumanization and “Making...
Making Monsters "is a wake-up call. We need to seriously address the phenomenon of dehumanization if we are to have any hope of constraining it when things get really difficult." The post Author...
View ArticleBook Review: The South – What Jim Crow Was and Wasn’t
We need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.
View ArticleFilm Review: Wait for It…“Hold Your Fire”
At a time when the nation is taking stock of the failures of our history of urban policing and looking for some new approaches, the lessons of Hold Your Fire are needed more urgently than ever.
View ArticleFilm Review: Three Shorts Featuring Writer and Activist James Baldwin, Man of...
In these short films James Baldwin does not come off as a relaxed person, someone at ease with himself or quite comfortable in the world. You can feel the acute pain as he speaks.
View ArticleBook Review: “Soccer Grannies”— A Marvelous Book About an Amazing Woman
Nobody reading about Rebecca “Beka” Ntsanwisi, aka “Mama Beka,” can feel anything but good. This extraordinary South African woman has built a network of soccer teams made up of grandmothers throughout...
View ArticleFilm Review: “Origin”— A Map of Human Suffering
The breadth and intimacy of "Origin"'s vision -- the personal becomes the historical -- is stunning, a searing portrait of collective trauma and the dark ideas that propel it.
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