Anthony Reed with Vijay Iyer on 'Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production'

"In this edition of the Popular Music Books in Process Series Anthony Reed and Vijay Iyer in conversation around Reed's new book, Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production. After a brief reading by the author, the conversation focuses on creative music, improvisation, and the continuing importance of black creativity. The overlapping contexts of the pandemic and renewed militancy will inform their discussion of the enduring legacy and unfinished business of the revolutionary 1960s as manifest in contemporary creative music and beyond."