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Jackson Albert Mann

Jackson Albert Mann is a historian of music-making in trade unions and the international left. He is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Maryland, College Park. His work has been featured in Monthly Review and Jacobin Magazine. He is an editor at Cosmonaut Magazine.
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Learning From Each Other’s Oppression: Latin American Revolutionary Nationalist Music in the Liner Notes of Paredon Records

Jackson Albert Mann, December 11, 2024

Jackson Albert Mann examines the debate that took place over nationalism, internationalism, and musical aesthetics in the liner notes to albums of Latin American revolutionary nationalist music released by US-based, left-wing record label, Paredon Records, between 1969 and 1985. Read Article.

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The Foner Case: Thoughts in Response to the New Edition of 'The Case of Joe Hill'

Jackson Albert Mann, October 4, 2022

Jackson Albert Mann responds to International Publishers' new 2022 edition of Philip S. Foner's classic work, 'The Case of Joe Hill.' Read Article.

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The Value of Dune: a Communistic Perspective

Jackson Albert Mann, May 17, 2022

Rejecting recent interpretations in the U.S. socialist press as truistic, Jackson Albert Mann makes a case for a particular communistic reading of the first novel in Frank Herbert's Dune franchise. Read Article.