Welcome to a new season and new approach on Music and Global Politics. After lectures and interviews, we now present dialogues and essay readings. Today's episode on the Jews' Blues gives some answer to the question: have you ever wanted to mine deep the roots of today's globally dominant pop culture. Answer, it is found at least in part, in the Black Jewish musical symbiosis. Today's theme is especially appropriate in our pre-pogrom times, as we witness the pernicious persecutory pattern persisting. So stay tuned for a meditation on musical symbiosis and the politically antiracist Africanist school of mid 20th Century American Jewish cultural and intellectual thought and action,. If you enjoy the electronically generated dialogue, stay tuned for a full essay reading, before which you will hear John Coltrane's transcendent sheets of sounds, turni ...