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Showing videos filed under: jazz
Melissa Leo: Tremé and New Orleans
August 30, 2010Actress Melissa Leo didn't know much about New Orleans before moving there to shoot a season of HBO's Tremé, but she quickly fell in love with the city, its music, and its resilient people. The show's focus on the music and culture of the city has brought national attention once again to the unique jazz scene, and filming in New Orleans has brought money and jobs to a city badly in need of both.Rebuilding New Orleans: Bill Quigley, Tracie Washington, Melissa Leo
August 30, 2010"We can't spray dispersant on poor people and expect they go away," Tracie Washington says, calling attention at once to the plight of the people of New Orleans, still struggling to rebuild, and the ongoing issues with the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. Like the oil that BP claims to have cleaned up, the problems left behind by Hurricane Katrina are still there, just a little bit harder to see.Joy Harjo: Reconnecting to History through Art
May 22, 2010Poet, musician, playwright, and artist Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation, and her art has always served to reconnect her audiences with Native issues and themes. Though, she notes, the history of her people is disappeared from discussions in the U.S.--or turned into cartoons and easy narratives--Harjo's work serves to highlight the humanity of all people.Joy Harjo, Developing Haiti, and a Muted Media
May 21, 2010Poet, musician, playwright, and artist Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Nation, and her art has always served to reconnect her audiences with Native issues and themes. From the soybean plantations of Brazil to the tin mines of Bolivia, Latin America has experienced 500 years of several angles of exploitation and repression. Yet, Latin America is at a turning point where a series of socialist leaders have come to power. We continued our conversation with Ray Laforest concerning global redevelopment projects in Haiti. On Sunday, seven-year old Aiyana Jones was shot and killed during a failed murder investigation. What happens when the police accidently shoot and kill a seven-year old black girl and the media reaction is muted?Alex Gibney & Bob Ney, Richard Trumka, and Treme
May 4, 2010Get the money out of Washington. It's an ongoing refrain now, from the left and even from those in the Tea Party movement. Too much corruption, too little trust. Jack Abramoff, the superstar lobbyist whose spectacular fall brought down then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay, was the very public face of the problem of lobbying when he headed off to jail, and he is the subject of Alex Gibney's newest documentary, Casino Jack and the United States of Money.Ned Sublette: HBO's Treme Helping Rebuild New Orleans
May 4, 2010I can’t be objective about Treme, the new HBO series, because I’ve been cheering it on since it was first announced. Some of my friends are in it, and a number of specific songs, people, and places in the episodes I’ve seen are also in my two books about New Orleans. So I'm gonna like it.Celebrating Nina Simone
April 3, 2010Nina Simone died seven years ago this month, but her legacy of heartfelt, transformative music that spoke truth about the injustice that she saw all around her remains. A recent tribute to her took place at New York's Harlem Stage, with members of the Black Rock Coalition, and Patricia Cruz of Harlem Stage and composer and perfomer Imani Uzuri joined us in studio to discuss Simone's impact on their careers and using music and art to carry a message to the world.Celebrating Nina Simone, Memories of Abuse, and Phyllis Bennis
April 2, 2010Nina Simone died seven years ago this month, but her legacy of heartfelt, transformative music that spoke truth about the injustice that she saw all around her remains. A recent tribute to her took place at New York's Harlem Stage, with members of the Black Rock Coalition, and Patricia Cruz of Harlem Stage and composer and perfomer Imani Uzuri joined us in studio to discuss Simone's impact on their careers and using music and art to carry a message to the world.Malika Zarra: On the Ebony Road
June 4, 2009Jazz singer and composer Malika Zarra was born in a small village in Southern Morocco. She spent much of her childhood though in a suburb of Paris and began playing the clarinet in grade school. Known for her fusion of jazz and Arabic song Zarra discusses her work, her debut album On the Ebony Road, and the many influences on her music.GM's Restructuring, Malika Zarra, and Internet Loan Sharks
June 3, 2009Obama's auto task force is dismantling GM. Dennis Kucinich says congress should have played a role. What's in it for the labor movement, tax payers, and the auto industry? Kucinich, Steven Greenhouse, author of The Big Squeeze and others on GM's future. Moroccoan jazz singer and composer Malika Zarra on her many musical influences. And internet loan sharks fight efforts to regulate the industry.
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