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Precarity

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Precarity

A three-channel video installation, working with the themes of risk, hybridity and the unfathomable to explore the city of New Orleans through the remarkable life and times of Charles “Buddy” Bolden, the first person known to have explored the sonic tonalities of the music we now call jazz.

Released: 2017
Runtime: 46m
Language: English

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John AkomfrahDirector

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