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WICN Artist of the Month, November 2023: Count Basie - 90 5 WICN Public Radio

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Soundtrack to the Struggle: Earl Fatha Hines

It’s 1931 and Earl “Fatha” Hines has packed up his Orchestra for the first of his 3-month whistle-stop tours, including gigs in the Deep South. Fatha’s band was the first major black big band to tour Jim Crow country. At the time, Hines led the house band at the famed Grand Terrace Café in Chicago. … Continue reading

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Ghosts of Segregation exhibit explores America s past at Charles Allis Art Museum

A new art exhibition in Milwaukee examines the remnants of racism in places throughout the country. The photo collection, called “Ghosts of Segregation,” features images of sites and structures that depict how segregation has affected the lives of people of color.

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They got rhythm: the interwar British dance bands who pointed towards pop

Music stars of the 1920s and 1930s, including Spike Hughes and Reginald Foresythe, transformed American jazz to suit British tastes, explains Bob Stanley in an extract from his book charting the birth of pop

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