Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
A little known fact – before Ralph Ellison became one of America’s greatest writers, he was a jazz musician. Musicologist and Columbia University Professor Robert O’Meally joins Kojo to discuss the impact jazz had on Ellison’s work – an visa versa.
Guests
- Robert G. O'Meally Zora Neale Hurston Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Jazz Study at Columbia University and author of "Living with Music: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Writings" (Pub: Modern Library)
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