Ray Brown’s Most Important Advice for Bass Players
Online Resources (Wesleyan access only)
- Grove Music Online, “Jazz,” Mark Tucker and Travis Jackson (2001)
- The Jazz Discography, Tom Lord
- RIPM Jazz Periodicals (database of over 100 online periodicals)
Online Resources (Open access)
- Jazz Discography Project
- Album cover art
- DownBeat Magazine archive (critics poll first week in August; readers poll last week in December)
- Ken Burn’s Jazz PBS website (stream episodes on amazon prime or purchase on itunes)
- New York Times reviews (Wesleyan access only)
- “Fixing, for Now, the Image of Jazz,” Ben Ratliff (NYT, January 7, 2001)
- “Watching ‘Jazz’ for Its High Notes and Low,” 13 responses (NYT, January 7, 2001)
- “All that Jazz,” Gene Santoro (The Nation, January 12, 2001)
- Review by Frank Tirro (teachinghistory.org, 2011)
- Episode guide (Wikipedia)
- New York Times reviews (Wesleyan access only)
- A DIY Guide to the History of Women in Jazz (Lara Pellegrinelli, NPR, January 12, 2021)
Race and Ethnicity
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- on “Race” (1998)
- on “Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics” (1997)
- Merriam-Webster has a new definition of “racism”
- “Can Blacks Be Racist? – March 2009” (David Pilgrim, Jim Crow Museum, FSU)
- “Ethnic” (OED)
- “About 6 Million U.S. Adults Identify as Afro-Latino” (Pew, 5/2/2022)
- Whiteness
- What Is Whiteness? (Nell Irvin Painter, NYT, 6/20//2015)
- ‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work? (NYT, Bergner, 7/15/2020)
- “Is the Anti-Racism Training Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy?” (Jonathan Chait, New York magazine, 7/16/20)
- The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility (John McWhorter, 7/15/2020)
- “In Smithsonian Race Guidelines, Rational Thinking and Hard Work are White Values” (Newsweek, 7/17/2020)
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What It’s Like to Read Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man in 2020 (Alexander Montgomery, 2020)