Body and Soul: An American Bridge
Rating: All Ages
Director: Robert Philipson TRT: 58 min.
Sunday February 10 2019, 3 pm Oxford Commons Malco Screen 1
Logline: Out of all the cross-cultural encounters that have resulted in the richness of American popular music, none has been so prominent or so fraught with fraternity and conflict as the relationships between African Americans and American Jews. Body and Soul: An American Bridge aims to tease out the strands of this cultural knot by focusing on the early performance history of the jazz standard, “Body and Soul.”
Special Screening. Panel hosted by Jewish Federation of Oxford and Mississippi Humanities Council to follow. Free Screening.
