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Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons

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A new understanding of the birth of jazz through a fine-grained social history of early African American musicians

Winner of the 2025 Robert M. Stevenson Award, presented by the American Musicological Society (AMS)

Winner of the Harry and Claire Brook Award, bestowed by the Harry Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation (The Graduate Center of The City University of New York)

Finalist for the
MAAH Stone Book Award, bestowed by the Museum of African American History (2025)

Honorable men...