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REAL GONE

Emmet McKeown

A new podcast about alternative music histories.

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S02E05 Jazz, Africa & Islam - Part Three: 'Search for...

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2025/10/26

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 formed in the early 20th Century, notably the Islamic Mission of America (1939), the Addeynu Allahe-Universal Arabic Association (1938) and the First Cleveland Mosque (1937). These Sunni organisations emphasised the importance of pride in African ancestry, and their goals of self-reliance, empowerment

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S02E04 Jazz, Africa & Islam - Part Two: 'Scenes In...

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2025/10/12

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 cultural identities in the northern cities of the United States like Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Detroit. Dancehalls and music venues like The Savoy Ballroom in Harlem became important culture centres for new generations of young Black Americans whose lives and urban politics were soundtracked by the

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S02E03 Jazz, Africa & Islam - Part One: 'Uhuru Afrika'

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2025/07/18

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 decades. At different points during the 20th Century, the domestic Civil Rights struggle was viewed as intertwined with the fate of Africa and anti-colonialism more broadly.During this period Jazz music went through a period of intense ‘Africanization’ in what could be seen as re-valourization of the

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S01E08 - Sensational Glue: The Loft & Pre-Disco...

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2025/01/16

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 neglected parts of Downtown Manhattan. The network of Gay underground clubs established during this period, the characteristics that distinguished them from public dancehalls and discotheques of the previous decades, and the innate brilliance of their operators (people like Michael Fesco, David Mancuso, and

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S01E07 - The STONEWALL Uprising 1969 & The...

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2024/11/19

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 in response to this repression achieved significant legal reforms that enabled Gay people to congregate socially. Despite a steady expansion of the Gay Rights movement during this period, the situation was far from ideal by the end of the 1960s. Gay bars and nightclubs were still subject to regular police

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S01E06 - VICE PATROL: The Policing of Queer Nightlife...

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2024/10/19

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 the State liquor authorities, newly empowered in the years following the Repeal of Prohibition to shut down licensed bars and clubs where there was any indication of Gay activity therein. The draconian manner in which the liquor boards targeted Gay clientele prompted a form of activism fed into the

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S02E02 'Birth of The Cool' (The Post-Bebop Years)

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2024/08/08

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 early 1950s was aided by significant developments in musical styles and performance environments. The ability of musicians, critics, and promoters to equate jazz with a genuine artistic sensibility derived partly from changes that brought one wing of the music (classified as Cool Jazz, Third Stream, and

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S02E01 'Cool War - The Jazz Ambassadors'

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2024/05/24

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 Ellington were all enlisted to perform in the Middle East, South America and post-colonial Africa, parts of the World where America’s interests were dictated by its geo-political strategy. Musicians that experienced racial and economic hardship at home were suddenly being celebrated by the American Government

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S01E05 REAL GONE – "Universal Zulu Nation" (The South...

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2023/08/01

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. A combination of severe austerity measures including the closure of fire stations combined with 'Disinvestment' by local landlords and widespread arson further contributed to the decimation of 80% of available housing stock, with large swathes of The Bronx left in ruins.In this same period, following

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S01E04 REAL GONE – "The Artistic Colonization of SoHo"

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2023/06/15

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 living in the City in the early 1970s. We discuss how the physical features of the abandoned industrial loft buildings made it attractive for artists to live and work in this Downtown neighbourhood, and how the influx of galleries (both commercial and co-operative) shifted the centre of the New York

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S01E03 "Cooks In The Kitchen" (Experimental...

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2023/06/07

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 experimental performance venues around the area south of Houston Street known as SoHo. One particular venue known as The Kitchen had special importance for the City's exponents of new electronic music and the presentation of ground-breaking mixed media art. We also discuss the creation of two of the greatest

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S01E02 "Wildflowers" (Free Jazz in New York City...

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2023/05/25

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 determined organisation by jazz musicians to create an alternative to the traditional music industry platforms. These factors culminated in the formation of the New York Musicians Organisation (NYMO) and the counter-festival staged by the NYMO to challenge the imposition of the Newport Jazz Festival which

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S01E01 - "Running Wild" (The New York Cabaret Laws)

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2023/05/08

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 Prohibition to discuss the restrictive effect of the 1926 Cabaret Laws which massively affected how small music clubs were able to operate in New York, and the personal impact of the regulations on artists such as Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, and Thelonius Monk. We also consider how the administrative

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