Students investigate the voices and representation of those who identify as mixed - heritage individuals through
oral histories, archival
primary sources, popular
culture references, and contextualizing secondary sources.
Following his acclaimed biography of Louis Armstrong, Pops,
culture critic Terry Teachout draws on candid unpublished interviews with Ellington,
oral histories of the orchestra leader and his times, and other little - known
primary sources to tell a mesmerizing story in Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington.