Hear Benjamin Barson talk about his new book, Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons at the University of Bristol.
Benjamin Barson is a historian, baritone saxophonist, and political activist. He is an assistant professor of music at Bucknell University. His work has been published in Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party (2020), Routledge Handbook on Jazz and Gender (2021) and Routledge Guide to Ecosocialism (2021).