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The utopic vision of Black liberation in ’60s & ’70s jazz

Freedom, Rhythm & Sound — As Pan-African optimism spread across the world in the postcolonial era, Black-led record labels gave artists space to express themselves away from the mainstream. A new book collates 500 groundbreaking albums and their covers.

  • Music
  • Miss Rosen

The radical album art of revolutionary Cuba

Latin rhythms — Gilles Peterson discusses a new book he helped co-edit about Cuban record sleeve design, which traces the country's rich cultural Latin musical legacy, as well as the political and aesthetic influence of revolutionary Communism.

  • Album Covers
  • Miss Rosen

What it’s like to create album art for the world's greatest hip-hop artists

Pulling out the inserts — You might not know his name, but you'll know his work. Vlad Sepetov is the young visual artist designing some of the most notorious album covers in music.

  • Culture
  • Locke Fitzpatrick

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