Benjamin Barson

This was (finally) some good NYT reporting on this.

13/141 2025 Official Submission #MAAHStoneAtoZ

Interesting. New contracting memorandum from Secy of Defense says military contracts shld stop including language that bars contractors from running segregated facilities.

The corporate coup is global.

Trump's mad tariffs do not mark the end of neoliberalism or free trade or whatever you want to call it.

They mark the end game of what we have been fighting for decades: corporate rule.

They do not believe in the public. They believe in their wealth.

Ben Barson, eli namay, Lyn Rye, Adam Shead, and Fred Jackson celebrate BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY with a discussion on music, improvisation and community organizing 🎶

Sunday! Join Barson, eli, namay, Lyn Rye, Adam Shead, and Fred Jackson for for an event in celebration of Barson's Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons!

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Join us in celebrating Benjamin Barson's new book, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons at the BK House. The evening will blend music and conversation exploring the legacies of Haitian music, language, and politics in New Orleans with Creole music by Leyla McCalla and Sunpie.

Join us tomorrow at 7pm for music and conversation exploring the legacies of Haitian music, language, and politics in New Orleans!

@benjaminbarson.bsky.social joined by #LeylaMcCall, and @brucesunpiebarnes.bsky.social & the Louisiana Sunspots.

#TulaneLiberalArts #BKHouseNOLA @nousfnd.bsky.social

Chart Showing the Attendance and Absence Records of Students at an Ottoman Elementary School in Baalbek.

■ Chart Showing the Attendance and Absence Records of Students at an Ottoman Elementary School in Baalbek (Lebanon), 1894 #history #baalbek #lebanon #education

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Just in! -- review of Brassroots Democracy in the Journal of Jazz Studies by E Frickey. "This sprawling and pioneering text is perhaps only the beginning of not just a new outlook on jazz scholarship but an invigorated musicology that engages with its site of research literally from the ground up."

happy Haitian Independence Day !

Honored to have Brassroots Democracy named in @popmatters.bsky.social “Best Books of 2024”!

Book Nook: 'Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons' by Benjamin Barson Studying the connections between jazz and democracy.

Thanks @vickmickunas.bsky.social for the in-depth interview about Brassroots Democracy on Book Nook. You can check out the full interview here:

Jazz’s Agenda as Protest Music in 'Brassroots Democracy' The excellent 'Brassroots Democracy' details the beautiful and bleak ways that jazz music created the soundtrack of an emancipatory movement that lasts to this day.

Jazz’s Historical Agenda as Protest Music in the Stellar Brassroots Democracy

Benjamin Barson's excellent 'Brassroots Democracy' details the beautiful and bleak ways that #jazz created the soundtrack of an emancipatory movement that lasts to this day.

Coming soon: The Prison Notebooks by Luigi Mangione

Jazz’s Agenda as Protest Music in 'Brassroots Democracy' The excellent 'Brassroots Democracy' details the beautiful and bleak ways that jazz music created the soundtrack of an emancipatory movement that lasts to this day.

Thank you @popmatters.bsky.social for calling my book Brassroots Democracy "Stellar."
"9/10."(!)
"Brassroots Democracy inspires hope about what is possible under the bleakest conditions."
So cool to be featured in this outlet.
Check out the full review here:

New edition, soon!

“Öcalan’s works make many intellectuals uncomfortable because they represent a form of thought which is not only inextricable from action, but which directly grapples with the knowledge that it is.”
—David Graeber author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years

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You know I appreciate this!!!

Writing tip #2: All of my books have soundtracks. I always start with music that will somehow help me to understand the people I am studying. The track for *Outlaws of the Atlantic* was the music of the great London-based dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, what he called "Jamaican rebel music."

Check out @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social's conversation with WUP author Benjamin Barson on his latest book "Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons."

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