Happy New Year! This week, our blogger Tegan is finishing up a project she started in 2013 – reviewing all ten episodes of the Ken Burns series JAZZ. It’s hard to write about the tenth and final episode of JAZZ because it shares so many flaws with the ninth episode: it covers too long a…
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Earlier this month, you read a review of the second episode of the Ken Burns film JAZZ. On to part three! The third episode delves into the Harlem Renaissance, in which culture blossomed in the New York City neighborhood. Mostly Black musicians entertained Blacks and Whites alike in separate venues in Harlem’s heavily segregated speakeasies.…
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