Amiri’s Dream, or The Blue Futures of (Negro) Music

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Notes

1 Amiri Baraka, Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).

2 Ibid., 30.

3 Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: W.W. Norton, 1963).

4 John Gennari, Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 269.

5 See ibid., 277.

6 Ibid., 277–9.

7 Greg Tate, Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (New York: Simon & Shuster, 1992), 171.

8 Ibid., 177.

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Guthrie P. Ramsey

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., Guggenheim Fellow and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is a music historian, author, pianist, composer, and Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. As a producer and bandleader, Ramsey has released five recording projects and has performed at The Blue Note and Harlem Stage. He scored the 2019 prize-winning documentary Making Sweet Tea. He is an honorary member of the American Musicological Society.