Low Key
Low Key
Aaron Lanton
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and the Fight to Own Music
1 hour 8 minutes Posted Dec 31, 2020 at 3:59 pm.
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On the last Low Key podcast of the year, Keith Dennie, Aaron Lanton and Tim Molloy talk about the deceptively straightforward Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, directed by George C. Wolfe and based on the play by August Wilson.


We talk about what we thought of Chadwick Boseman's final performance, what the film says about religion, and if there's a Marxist argument at work in the story of arguing musicians one hot day in 1927.


Like every episode of the Low Key podcast, this one is good.



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