Duke Ellington
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Download Duke Ellington Segment (2.1 MB)
Description
WMPG celebrates the lives of Black men and women throughout the month of February. Born Edward Kennedy in Washington, DC, Duke Ellington had a 50-year career in jazz music. He elevated jazz to an art form. In 1999, he received a special posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Music.
Publisher
90.9 WMPG FM
City
Portand, Maine
Keywords
American composer, Pianist, Band leader, Jazz, Black History Month
Disciplines
African American Studies | Africana Studies | African History | American Art and Architecture | American Film Studies | American Literature | American Popular Culture | American Studies | Art and Design | Children's and Young Adult Literature | Contemporary Art | Creative Writing | Cultural History | Digital Humanities | English Language and Literature | Fashion Design | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Fiction | Film and Media Studies | Film Production | Fine Arts | Hip Hop Studies | History | History of Gender | History of Religion | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Holocaust and Genocide Studies | Intellectual History | Interdisciplinary Arts and Media | Islamic World and Near East History | Labor History | Latin American History | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America | Literature in English, British Isles | Literature in English, North America | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Modern Literature | Music | Music Performance | Nonfiction | Oral History | Other American Studies | Other Arts and Humanities | Other English Language and Literature | Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Other Film and Media Studies | Other History | Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Other Music | Poetry | Political History | Public History | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Radio | Screenwriting | Social History | United States History | Visual Studies | Women's History | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
G, DJ Daddy, "Duke Ellington" (2020). Black History Month Segments. 4.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/wmpg_bhm/4
