REAL GONE
Emmet McKeown
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A new podcast about alternative music histories.
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S02E05 Jazz, Africa & Islam - Part Three: 'Search for a New Land'
The involvement of progressive Jazz musicians with Islam in the 1950s and 60s was shaped by the practices of Sunni Islam and the Black internationalism of several African American Muslim communities…
S02E04 Jazz, Africa & Islam - Part Two: 'Scenes In The City'
The demographic shift of The Great Migration during the period following the Civil War was a transformative historical moment for African Americans where they seized the opportunity to forge new…
S02E03 Jazz, Africa & Islam - Part One: 'Uhuru Afrika'
The late 1950s and 60s are associated with Black Americans developing pride in their African heritage, an association that had its roots in the activism of Marcus Garvey and Paul Robeson in earlier…
S01E08 - Sensational Glue: The Loft & Pre-Disco Nightlife in Downtown New York (1970-75)
In the period between 1970-1975 the LGBT population of New York City were at the forefront of claiming new territory in re-purposing the abandoned post-industrial lofts of SoHo and the other…
S01E07 - The STONEWALL Uprising 1969 & The Christopher Street Liberation Day March 1970
In Season 1 Episode 6, we discussed how the police and state liquor authorities worked to repress Gay nightlife in America throughout the 20th Century, and how the political activism that developed…
S01E06 - VICE PATROL: The Policing of Queer Nightlife & Gay Activism in 20th Century America
From the 1930s through to the 1960s the regulation of Queer nightlife in America was permanently on the agenda of the police authorities. Persecution by local police ran parallel to the activities of…
S02E02 'Birth of The Cool' (The Post-Bebop Years)
The role of jazz music in Cold War propaganda and the respect which foreign audiences attributed to it greatly influenced its place in American culture. However, its wider cultural acceptance by the…
S02E01 'Cool War - The Jazz Ambassadors'
During the Cold War, America recruited some of its most talented Jazz musicians in a cultural propaganda war against the Soviet Union. Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Duke…
S01E05 REAL GONE – "Universal Zulu Nation" (The South Bronx 1970-76, Gil Scott-Heron, The Nuyorican Poets Café and Archie Shepp's 'Attica Blues')
Completed in 1972, the construction of the Cross-Bronx Expressway resulted in the displacement of over 60,000 people from primarily Black and Latino neighbourhoods in the South Bronx, New York City.…
S1E4 S01E04 REAL GONE – "The Artistic Colonization of SoHo"
In this episode, we veer away from discussing musicians almost entirely and focus on the establishment of the area south of Houston Street known as SoHo as the centre of habitation for other artists…
S01E03 "Cooks In The Kitchen" (Experimental Electronic Music in Downtown New York 1970-1977)
In this episode, we move beyond Jazz to discuss some of the other experimental music and art that was being pioneered in early 1970s New York, specifically in the Downtown artists’ lofts and…
S01E02 "Wildflowers" (Free Jazz in New York City 1970-75)
We discuss the network of Downtown Jazz Lofts created by experimental musicians in Manhattan in the early 1970s. We examine how the spirit of independence and artistic adventure dovetailed with a…
S01E01 - "Running Wild" (The New York Cabaret Laws)
We introduce our new podcast, the first season of which aims to examine the development of new music in New York in the first half of the 1970s.We then skip back to the period following the repeal of…
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REAL GONE has published 13 episodes since May 2023, covering topics in Arts, Music.
REAL GONE is currently declining with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 44m.
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