Ryan Raul Bañagale

Jazz

George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ is a story of jazz, race and the fraught notion of America’s melting pot

Ryan Raul Bañagale

George Gershwin’s ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ remains a crowd favorite, but scholars are starting to see the composition as a whitewashed version of Harlem’s vibrant Black music scene.