VCU Music Professor Antonio Garcia talks with With Good Reason Radio about the work of jazz musicians and how the civil rights movement was expressed through their work.
The personal and professional lives of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane cannot be divorced from the struggle for racial equality. Antonio Garcia says they contributed in significant ways to interracial understanding and social progress.
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