"What is American communicates a now standard maxim in American music historiography: American culture is indebted to Black creative practices. It’s a message woven through the album’s organization: we begin with words and repertoire that engage with enslavement, the Civil War, and Black folks’ place in the nation-state (e.g. poetry by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dvorak’s “American” quartet, and Rhiannon Giddens’ “At the Purchaser’s Option”)." Kori Hill previews three projects by PUBLIQuartet, Johnny Gandelsman, and Emily Levin, Harp that all consider what it means to be American. Read more on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN—link in our bio! #NewMusic #PUBLIQuartet