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The World’s Writings on A World of Music
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Roy DeCarava’s photographic aesthetic
The legacy of Roy DeCarava, particularly his collection The sound I saw: Improvisation on a jazz theme (London: Phaidon, 2001), illuminates how his ph…
The Smithsonian Institution's Object of the Day, December 2, 2019: Harmonica Used Aboard Gemini 6
[caption id="attachment_16220" align="alignnone" width="623"] Wally Schirra’s 8-note Hohner "Little Lady" harmonica. Gift of Walter M. Schirra and T…
Afroperuvian feminisms
Black women’s cultural activism in Lima, Peru, enacts a vibrant geohistory of respatializations of raced and gendered embodiment, advancing deprovin…
Tina Turner’s second act
In 1958 Anna Mae Bullock, a backing vocalist in the Kings of Rhythm, married the group’s leader, Ike Turner; in 1960, ahead of the group’s first r…
The Smithsonian Institution's Object of the Day, November 22, 2019: Jenny Lind Concert Program
[caption id="attachment_16152" align="alignnone" width="567"] Jenny Lind Concert Program, 1850, National Museum of American History, Gift of Sarah Ell…