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October 21, 2019

Jazz & The Art of Movement

By: Jack Anderson

Where do we consider being at home? When do we feel that we belong in a place and how quickly can we become dispossessed? In its essence, jazz traces various migrations – some arbitrary, some forced, and some chosen – and beyond appropriation and broad-stroke caricature, reveal difficult truths of identity, well-being, and honest relationship.

Through the artistry of Miles, Monk, and Mingus, both critique and imagination of the American melting pot will be explored – lessons crucial to our current navigation of the difficulties of migration, refugees, and asylum-seeking in our land. What is native land – and beyond the symbols demanding our loyalty, what consistently makes America, great?

Listen back to Views and Brew: Jazz and The Art of Movement recorded live at the historic Cactus Cafe in Austin, Texas, with Rabbi and Jazz Historian Neil Blumofe in conversation with Rebecca McInroy. Featuring: Michael Malone, saxophone; Andre Hayward, trombone; Red Young, piano; Scott Laningham, drums.


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October 4, 2016

V&B – Saul Williams & Angelbert Metoyer [Part Two]

In this special Views & Brews collaboration with The Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy joins artists Angelbert Metoyer and Saul Williams as they share their stories, and discuss art and activism, time, memory, politics, poetry, and much more. Link to Part One.

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October 4, 2016

V&B – Saul Williams & Angelbert Metoyer [Part One]

In this special Views & Brews collaboration with The Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy joins artists Angelbert Metoyer and Saul Williams as they share their stories, and discuss art and activism, time, memory, politics, poetry, and much more. Link to Part Two.

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September 27, 2016

V&B – Jazz & the Art of the Other [Part One]

Sigmund Freud wrote: “every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. One’s ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.” How are we complicit in dehumanizing others, and how are we in turn, dehumanized? How do we cope with the unsettling […]

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September 27, 2016

V&B – Jazz & the Art of the Other [Part Two]

Sigmund Freud wrote: “every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. One’s ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.” How are we complicit in dehumanizing others, and how are we in turn, dehumanized? How do we cope with the unsettling […]

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September 20, 2016

V&B Extra – The Illusionists

In this Views & Brews Extra we join KUT’s Rebecca McInroy for a chance to go behind the scenes, talk the history of illusion, and catch a special live performance from trickster himself Jeff Hobson.

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September 13, 2016

V&B – Feeding Austin’s Hungry

In this special edition of Views & Brews, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy joins the hosts of The Secret Ingredient, Raj Patel and Tom Philpott, as they talk with guests Edwin Marty, the Food Policy Manager for the City of Austin, and Erin Lentz, from the LBJ School of Public Affairs, to ask: Why are people starving in one of the […]

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August 10, 2016

V&B – Understanding Lebanon

In this episode of Views & Brews, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy is joined by four visiting Fulbright professors from Lebanon as well as Dr. Richard Flores, Dean of the Liberal Arts College, in a discussion about the rich history of a place once known as the “Switzerland of the East”. What can we learn from their complex political […]

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July 29, 2016

V&B – Memories & Perception

In this episode of Views & Brews, KUT’s Rebecca McInroy joins Dr. Laura Colgin, Dr. Jarrod Lewis-Peacock, and Dr. Michael Drew from the University of Texas Neuroscience Department in a discussion about memory, fear, trauma perception and imagination in the shadow of recent tragedies, the importance of how our brains work and how they’re interacting with information in the new media […]

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