Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Dr Benjamin Barson’s Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons (2024), which takes readers on a journey through New Orleans, Haiti, Mexico, and the US South at large to show how African American musicians shaped social movements to free both the land and the people.

Dr Barson will be in conversation with Neil Harvey, visiting us from State University of New Mexico, and Stephen Mawdsley (History) about this exciting new book and his broader work. The event is co-hosted by MMB and the Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (HiPLA).

For more information contact: jo.crow@bristol.ac.uk