Fresh Air, Randall Kennedy and Jerry Goldsmith
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Fresh Air, Randall Kennedy and Jerry Goldsmith
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Narrated by:
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Terry Gross
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Terry Gross
About this listen
Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy and composer Jerry Goldsmith on this edition of Fresh Air. Randall Kennedy's new book, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word is based on a series of classroom lectures he prepared exploring the history and use of the word nigger. He found the word in literature, political debates, cartoons, and songs. And he explores the use of the word from a hateful slur to a term of endearment. Kennedy is a Rhodes Scholar, and he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Kennedy's also the author of Race, Crime and the Law.
Jerry Goldsmith has been writing film and TV music since the 1950s. He won an Academy Award in 1976 for his music for The Omen. His film scores include: Star Trek: The Motion Picture, The Sand Pebbles, Chinatown, and A Patch of Blue. His TV credits include: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Dr. Kildare, The Waltons, and Barnaby Jones. There's a new CD collecting his music, The Film Music of Jerry Goldsmith. (Broadcast Date: January 7, 2002)
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