Conversations with a Creator

"We Created the Culture, We Just Don't Own the Infrastructure" | Black Music & Power

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Ronnie Burrage recited poetry with Duke Ellington at nine years old, played with the Black Artists Group at thirteen, and has spent decades since connecting the dots from African drumming to bebop to hip hop at Penn State, the New School, the Berlin Conservatory, and beyond. He joins J. Ack and Shadcore for one of the deepest conversations CWaC has had: the roots of Black music as a healing…