January 2011
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Kyra's Chicken & Black-Eyed Pea Soup Recipe
Well, if you’re African American, southern extracted, you probably cook/eat black eyed peas for good luck on New Year’s Day. I did that. But made my own peas on Jan 2 with a recipe tweeted around by my colleague Professor Mark Anthony Neal (@newblackman).
The recipe from TVOne’s Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin mentions Patti Labelle but I was interested in the ingredients not...
June 2010
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This is from my NYU hip-hop class. Anthony...
October 2009
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Brother-man (I’d Like to Change the World)...
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Are My Hands Clean? Sweet Honey in The Rock
SOUND FILE: http://www.rhapsody.com/sweet-honey-in-the-rock/live-at-carnegie-hall/are-my-hands-clean
Are My Hands Clean?
Lyrics and music by Bernice Johnson Reagon. Songtalk Publishing Co. 1985 Performed by Sweet Honey in the Rock from the album Live at Carnegie Hall(1988) I wear garments touched by hands from all over the world 35% cotton, 65% polyester, the journey begins in Central America ...
For teaching in my Anthro class tomorrow.
Ode to...
July 2009
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“You bring the bomb which John Coltrane ws trying to put into black music beyond...”
– From Interview/Rehearsal 13 Jul 2009 with Abdoulaye Alhassane Touré at his apartment in Harlem USA above St. Nick’s Pub.
We are performing new arrangements of my music setting them to traditional African textures. Gig is 20 Jul 2009 at Cornelia Street Café NYC.
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Best site on migrations of African diaspora →
The African-American Migration Experience
The transatlantic slave trade has created an enduring image of black men and women as transported commodities, and is usually considered the most defining element in the construction of the African Diaspora, but it is centuries of additional movements that have given shape to the nation we know today.
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience...
June 2009
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Twitter Censored #ThatsAfrican Trending Topic
Good journalism requires opening up topics not ending them. I followed the #Thatsafriccan Trending Topic for over 2 hours Sun 21 Jun 2009. 15 hours ago David Weiner wrote: RT@daweiner “my hastily put together piece” titled “When Twitter Went Racist?” on #thatsafrican: http://bit.ly/EYUDM…{click header for more] Read my response to the Huffington Post piece here. [The]...
WatchThanks to Wayne Marshall for posting this on Wayne&Wax 26 Jan 2009. From a forthcoming documentary called THE NEOAFRICAN AMERICANS. http://neoafricanamericans.com and http://neoafricanamericans.wordpress.com/
Competing Discourses of Blackness
The journal Social Text just released an issue called Diaspora and Localities of Race 98 (27/1) introduced by Minkah Makalani (2009). She discusses how blackness must be negotiated and has competing conceptions within the African diaspora (6). We compete over discourses of blackness, the production and markers of difference, even how we engage in the exchanges and prooessses of...
WatchThx to TED friend Cooper Bates (Los Angeles Idea Project) for reminding the Loch Ness Blogster to appear. Check out Wayne&Wax on Modern Ancient African Music (a must follow blog). Wayne Marshall includes this great dancehall video by Senegalese world musician Baaba Maal in a review of Ingrid Monson’s article on theories of globalization (1999). Love the video narrative teaching kids abt...
May 2009
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A Recent "trip": Traces of the Trade →
About 7 weeks ago, I discovered the BBC Documentary RACISM-A HISTORY on Google Video. BBC-4 documentary is just 3-1 hour segments (First segment: COLOUR OF MONEY). I was left stunned. It was all I’d learned here & there about global racism in one authoritative narrative. I was angry again. Pissed to the point of paralysis again. This was in background while working on my St Nick’s...
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“With her deep, earthy voice, commanding stage presence…she took what was...”
– Coumba Sidibé, Queen of Wasulu Music Dies in New York
Thursday, May 14 2009 @ 06:29 AM EDT Contributed by: WMC_News_Dept
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Was Roots a Hoax? And the Roots of our Discourse
After teaching ethnomusicology since 1996 as a professor and longer since grad school, I still have lots of questions about how scholars and our society treat Africans and their musics. What social structures are keeping certain conversations, certain discourse in place, while other hidden discourses remain…well.. hidden from public view, off-limits as conversation?
This blog is a space to...
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BBC: Banjo is a staple of American country,...
Heard Béla Fleck and his brother Sascha Paladino on BBC talking about their film THROW DOWN YOUR HEART - Béla Fleck Brings the Banjo Back to Africa Tues Apr 21 and went to show at IFC Ctr where they attended Apr 24th. The BBC audio slideshow I overheard is here. Great piece!
Met Béla and Sascha that night. Lovely film with my fav Oumou Sangare. Asked two questions.
1. Will the film be shown to...
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WatchTAKE ME AWAY FAST - Trailer with DJ FRANK
Been contemplating Africa, whites, and blacks as I write an article I called the Unfinished Migrations of Music, Race and the African Diaspora. This piece will be akin to the ethno article on Paul Simon’s Graceland by Louise Meintjes. Gotta get this thing done. Been getting signs and messages to push me along.
Tonight, and today’s my...
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“I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am...”
– James Baldwin