Benjamin Barson
@benjaminbarson.bsky.social
Historian, baritone saxophonist, (ethno-)musicologist working at the intersection of jazz, community organizing, and an ecological society.
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#TeamUP and #ReadUP in the arts, performing arts & media studies with works by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, @n-w-f.bsky.social, @cmupress.bsky.social, @nupress.bsky.social & more in the #UPWeek Gallery https://bit.ly/3WTl7XD
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
#TeamUP and #ReadUP in the arts, performing arts & media studies with works by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, @n-w-f.bsky.social, @cmupress.bsky.social, @nupress.bsky.social & more in the #UPWeek Gallery https://bit.ly/3WTl7XD
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Ben Barson's 'Brassroots Democracy' is one of our two $10K 2025 Finalists! Dig it: a book that recasts the birth of jazz drawing on the narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal the role that jazz & jazz musicians played in mobilizing people during Reconstruction & beyond! bit.ly/2025-maah-st...
September 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Ben Barson's 'Brassroots Democracy' is one of our two $10K 2025 Finalists! Dig it: a book that recasts the birth of jazz drawing on the narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal the role that jazz & jazz musicians played in mobilizing people during Reconstruction & beyond! bit.ly/2025-maah-st...
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We are proud to celebrate Benjamin Barson and his book Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons for being chosen as a Finalist for the MAAH Stone Book Award!
#maahmuseum #brassrootsdemocracy #musichistory
#maahmuseum #brassrootsdemocracy #musichistory
September 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We are proud to celebrate Benjamin Barson and his book Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons for being chosen as a Finalist for the MAAH Stone Book Award!
#maahmuseum #brassrootsdemocracy #musichistory
#maahmuseum #brassrootsdemocracy #musichistory
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A festive window display for the weekend 🎉
September 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
A festive window display for the weekend 🎉
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Nobody wants no damn Gavin Newsome. We must resist the undemocratic imposition of these boring, trite liberals and court a new political axis centered on internationalist solidarity and eco socialism.
September 7, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Nobody wants no damn Gavin Newsome. We must resist the undemocratic imposition of these boring, trite liberals and court a new political axis centered on internationalist solidarity and eco socialism.
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3/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: Benjamin Barson's 'Brassroots Democracy' recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed.
August 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
3/12 MSBA 2025 ShortList: Benjamin Barson's 'Brassroots Democracy' recasts the birth of jazz, unearthing vibrant narratives of New Orleans musicians to reveal how early jazz was inextricably tied to the mass mobilization of freedpeople during Reconstruction and the decades that followed.
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Congratulations to Benjamin Barson, whose book Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons has been selected for the MAAH Stone Book Award Shortlist!
Visit weslpress.org to order a copy!
Visit weslpress.org to order a copy!
August 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Congratulations to Benjamin Barson, whose book Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons has been selected for the MAAH Stone Book Award Shortlist!
Visit weslpress.org to order a copy!
Visit weslpress.org to order a copy!
I just learned that the @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social shortlisted "Brassroots Democracy" for the Stone Book Award, in the company of so many brilliant and vital books. Winners will be announced in October. So grateful to the committee for reading this love letter to jazz and its social vision.
August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I just learned that the @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social shortlisted "Brassroots Democracy" for the Stone Book Award, in the company of so many brilliant and vital books. Winners will be announced in October. So grateful to the committee for reading this love letter to jazz and its social vision.
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In Jazz and Culture Vol. 8, No. 1, @benjaminbarson.bsky.social explores the historical and theoretical intersections between marronage and jazz through a critical analysis of archival records, musical practices, and Black ecological practice. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/arti...
August 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
In Jazz and Culture Vol. 8, No. 1, @benjaminbarson.bsky.social explores the historical and theoretical intersections between marronage and jazz through a critical analysis of archival records, musical practices, and Black ecological practice. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/arti...
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🎷Jazz and Culture Vol. 8, No. 1, is here! Feat. work by @paulausterlitz.bsky.social, Jhensen Ortiz, @benjaminbarson.bsky.social, Elizabeth Frickey, Scott Gray Douglass, El Williams III, plus a review of "Brassroots Democracy" @weslpress.bsky.social! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/issu...
August 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
🎷Jazz and Culture Vol. 8, No. 1, is here! Feat. work by @paulausterlitz.bsky.social, Jhensen Ortiz, @benjaminbarson.bsky.social, Elizabeth Frickey, Scott Gray Douglass, El Williams III, plus a review of "Brassroots Democracy" @weslpress.bsky.social! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jac/issu...
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13/141 2025 Official Submission #MAAHStoneAtoZ
June 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
13/141 2025 Official Submission #MAAHStoneAtoZ
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Interesting. New contracting memorandum from Secy of Defense says military contracts shld stop including language that bars contractors from running segregated facilities.
March 7, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Interesting. New contracting memorandum from Secy of Defense says military contracts shld stop including language that bars contractors from running segregated facilities.
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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.
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.
February 3, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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.
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.
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Ben Barson, eli namay, Lyn Rye, Adam Shead, and Fred Jackson celebrate BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY with a discussion on music, improvisation and community organizing 🎶
November 17, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Ben Barson, eli namay, Lyn Rye, Adam Shead, and Fred Jackson celebrate BRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY with a discussion on music, improvisation and community organizing 🎶
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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!
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/43336
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/43336
November 15, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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!
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/43336
pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/43336
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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.
January 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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.
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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
@benjaminbarson.bsky.social joined by #LeylaMcCall, and @brucesunpiebarnes.bsky.social & the Louisiana Sunspots.
#TulaneLiberalArts #BKHouseNOLA @nousfnd.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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
@benjaminbarson.bsky.social joined by #LeylaMcCall, and @brucesunpiebarnes.bsky.social & the Louisiana Sunspots.
#TulaneLiberalArts #BKHouseNOLA @nousfnd.bsky.social
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■ Chart Showing the Attendance and Absence Records of Students at an Ottoman Elementary School in Baalbek (Lebanon), 1894 #history #baalbek #lebanon #education
January 5, 2025 at 7:19 AM
■ Chart Showing the Attendance and Absence Records of Students at an Ottoman Elementary School in Baalbek (Lebanon), 1894 #history #baalbek #lebanon #education
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."
January 5, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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."
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happy Haitian Independence Day !
January 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
happy Haitian Independence Day !
Honored to have Brassroots Democracy named in @popmatters.bsky.social “Best Books of 2024”!
THE BEST BOOKS OF 2024
PopMatters Best Books of 2024 include a broad range of nonfiction, many books on music, short fiction, a novel that turns a Mark Twain classic inside out, and much more.
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PopMatters Best Books of 2024 include a broad range of nonfiction, many books on music, short fiction, a novel that turns a Mark Twain classic inside out, and much more.
READ ➡️ tinyurl.com/BestBooks24
The Best Books of 2024
PopMatters Best Books of 2024 include a broad range of nonfiction, many books on music, short fiction, a novel that turns a Mark Twain classic inside out, and much more.
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December 20, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Honored to have Brassroots Democracy named in @popmatters.bsky.social “Best Books of 2024”!
Thanks @vickmickunas.bsky.social for the in-depth interview about Brassroots Democracy on Book Nook. You can check out the full interview here:
Book Nook: 'Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons' by Benjamin Barson
Studying the connections between jazz and democracy.
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December 18, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Thanks @vickmickunas.bsky.social for the in-depth interview about Brassroots Democracy on Book Nook. You can check out the full interview here:
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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.
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.
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.
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December 9, 2024 at 3:36 PM
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.
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.