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How Did Black Music Take Over the World? Ask Melvin Gibbs.

The avant-garde jazz bassist, now a part-time Minneapolis resident, combines memoir, history, and musicology in his first book.

Read an Excerpt From ‘STRIKE!: 21 Days in 1970 When Minneapolis Teachers Broke the Law’

The forthcoming book tells 'the complex and dramatic history of an illegal teachers’ strike that forever altered labor relations and Minnesota politics,' according to publisher U of M Press.

February 25, 2026