Meet Christophe Ylla-Somers, author of the book "The Sound of Revolt: A Political History of Black American Music"
Why is African American music inseparable from the struggle against systemic racism in the United States? The Sound of Revolt sets out to answer this question, tracing the story from the arrival of the first forcibly displaced Africans on American soil in 1619 to the Black Lives Matter movement. Beyond making people dance or selling records, blues, jazz, soul, funk and hip-hop express above all an aspiration for social change. Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Odetta, Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane and Public Enemy, to name just a few, are all iconic figures in the African American struggle for equality, justice and dignity. Christophe Ylla-Somers holds a master’s degree in medieval history and is also a DJ. For more than twenty years, he has taken his vinyl collection from clubs to parties, from the Baron to the Bus Palladium, from the Mellotron to Radio Meuh, as well as to Brussels, Tunis, New York and the Festival de Cannes.
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Source: paris.fr — photo: éditions Le mot et le reste