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Cisco Bradley, will present selections from his forthcoming book, I Hear Freedom: The Great Migration, Free Jazz, and Black Power, which reframes the history of free jazz in the 1960s and 1970s by looking at the history of freedom movements in the U.S. over the century between emancipation in 1865 and the rise of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.

Bradley is a professor of history at the Pratt Institute and the author of four books including The Williamsburg Avant-Garde: Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront (Duke University Press, 2023) and Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker (Duke, 2021).

There will be a Q&A afterwards, led by Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn, who is a music historian, writer, researcher, and DJ who heads cow: Music and is the creative consultant at Astral Spirits Records.