Jeremy Gantz is a contributing editor at In These Times and the editor of The Age of Inequality (Verso, 2017). He is also an executive editor at Imagination, a content marketing firm based in Chicago. A Carleton College graduate, he lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Border Crossings: Bridging Music and Movements with Makaya McCraven
“Drawing on all influences and letting them mix freely into new and unpredictable things—it might just be a political act in a time when our own borders are weaponized, both literally and rhetorically.” Jeremy Gantz, contributing editor at the Chicago progressive political magazine In These Times, examines the genre-crossing music of Makaya McCraven, who debuts his new Walker-commissioned musical suite—also titled In These Times—in Minneapolis October 18.