Politics and Art in an Era of Social Upheaval

A short presentation on Waghalter's conception of the socially committed artist — the through-line that connects his refusal to convert to Christianity in interwar Berlin, his public defense of Roland Hayes and Marian Anderson against racist campaigns in the 1920s, and his founding of the American Negro Orchestra in Harlem after fleeing the Nazi regime. For the theoretical context of these commitments, see the longer essay Why did Ignatz Waghalter become unknown?