“Illustration for an article titled ‘Jazz Has Always Been Protest Music. Can It Meet This Moment?’ by Giovanni Russonello. Over the past 50 years, jazz music has become entrenched in academic institutions. As a result, it’s often inaccessible to, and disconnected from, many of the very people who created it: young Black Americans. Jazz remained a resistance music because it was the sound of Black Americans building something together, in the face of repression.”
