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Harmony Holiday : Astro/Afrosonics
Poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday digs in her Astro/Afrosonics Archive, which weaves poetry, poetics and music, through mythscientific gestures.
“To access recordings and writing that unite the philosophy of collective improvisation that galvanizes black music, with the literary tradition – and creates new motifs within both disciplines – one has to practically be a savant, a collector of rare out-of-print records and books, or an archivist in one’s own right.” Harmony Holiday
Harmony Holiday is the author of Negro League Baseball (Fence Books, 2011), Go Find your Father/A Famous Blues (Ricochet Editions, 2014) and Hollywood Forever (Fence Books, 2016). She curates the Afrosonics archive of Jazz Poetics and audio culture, and teaches at Otis College in Los Angeles
Harmony Holiday – Astro/Afrosonics Archive
Now streaming live: Chimurenga Library resident, poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday presents words and sounds from her Astro/Afrosonics Archive, a collection of Jazz Poetics and audio culture. In her own words: “Since the 1950s, jazz music and the literary imagination have been inextricably linked, producing transcendent recordings and written work and many hybrids of the two – a new sonics, an AntiqueFuturism – From Langston Hughes and Kenneth Rexroth and Duke Ellington to Joseph Jarman to Michael Harper to Mos …
PASS in NY: Harmony Holiday
Poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday curates an archive devoted to poetry, poetics and music, woven together through mythscientific gestures. “Since the 1950s, jazz music and the literary imagination have been inextricably linked, producing transcendent recordings and written work and many hybrids of the two – a new sonics, an AntiqueFuturism – From Langston Hughes and Kenneth Rexroth and Duke Ellington to Joseph Jarman to Michael Harper to Mos Def.” For PASS at the Performa Hub in New York, Harmony will …
Reeds & Drums by Harmony Holiday
From the Afro/Astrosonics Projects: In the summer 1970, reeds master Rahsaan Roland Kirk founded the Jazz and Peoples Movement in order to promote the visibility of the artform on mainstream television. Jazz musicians wanted to re-assert the dignity of their work to the very powers that threatened that dignity— a privately owned mass media that aggressively censored natural black inventions like collective improvisation. Their tactic: to collectively interrupt live tapings of talk shows, most notably the Merve Griffin Show and …
Oshun and the Country Preacher by Harmony Holiday
From the Afro/Astrosonics Projects. And then in November of 1973 a fiendishly anonymous trumpeter who called himself the Country Preacher started making headlines all over the South. Rumours of what was called a ‘Vertigo of the Infinite’ that he conjured with his words and ‘preachments,’ piled one atop the other like bandits trying to breach the borders of your consciousness without id. Like all the good and spreadingest rumours, the more the stories corroborated one another the more impossible they …
LIBERATION RADIO: DAR ES SALAAM – 14 AUGUST 2022 from 2pm
2pm – Liberation Dance: When Tarzan Met the African Freedom Fighter An ongoing exploration of struggle music – literally, music produced by and through the movements and people involved in Africa’s liberation struggle, rather than about it. “Struggle Music” is also a misnomer, it designates collective expression which, although musical, refuses to be “music” – or the process of individuation that produces it. It helps us demarcate from what is customarily called “protest music” – which, at times, may be …
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Tags: Amandla Thomas-Johnson, ANC, Ethel Minor, Frantz Fanon, FRELIMO, FROLIZI, Kwame Ture, Mahmood Mamdani, Malcom X, Maria Shaba, MOLINACO, MPLA, PAC, Radio Cairo, Radio Free Africa, SWAPO, Tanzanian Broadcasting Corporation, Toivo Asheeke, UNFL, ZANU, ZAPU
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LIBERATION RADIO: DAR ES SALAAM – 13 AUGUST 2022 from 2pm
[The mighty band Afro 70 in performance in Dar es Salaam, 1970s] 2pm – Liberation Dance: Toyi-Toyi & Struggle Songs An ongoing exploration of struggle music – literally, music produced by and through the movements and people involved in Africa’s liberation struggle, rather than about it. “Struggle Music” is also a misnomer, it designates collective expression which, although musical, refuses to be “music” – or the process of individuation that produces it. It helps us demarcate from what is …
LIBERATION RADIO: DAR ES SALAAM – 12 AUGUST 2022 from 2pm
[The opening ceremony at the 6th Pan African Congress held in Dar es Salaam, 1974] 2pm – Liberation Dance: When Tarzan Met the African Freedom Fighter An ongoing exploration of struggle music – literally, music produced by and through the movements and people involved in Africa’s liberation struggle, rather than about it. “Struggle Music” is also a misnomer, it designates collective expression which, although musical, refuses to be “music” – or the process of individuation that produces it. It helps …
LIBERATION RADIO: DAR ES SALAAM – 11 AUGUST 2022 from 2pm
FRELIMO President Dr. Mondlane addressing a public meeting in Kawe near Dar es Salaam. Day two of our Liberation Radio: Dar es Salaam broadcast, live from TPH Bookshop: 2pm – Liberation Dance: When Tarzan Met the African Freedom Fighter An ongoing exploration of struggle music – literally, music produced by and through the movements and people involved in Africa’s liberation struggle, rather than about it. “Struggle Music” is also a misnomer, it designates collective expression which, although musical, refuses …
LIBERATION RADIO: DAR ES SALAAM – 10 AUGUST 2022 from 2pm
t The scene outside the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Conference opening ceremony at Cairo University Today we open our Liberation Radio: Dar es Salaam sessions: 2pm – Liberation Dance: When Tarzan Met the African Freedom Fighter An ongoing exploration of struggle music – literally, music produced by and through the movements and people involved in Africa’s liberation struggle, rather than about it. “Struggle Music” is also a misnomer, it designates collective expression which, although musical, refuses to be “music” – or …
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Tags: AAPSO, Afro Asian Film Festival, Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Conference, Bandung, Cairo, German Democratic Republic, Nasser, PAIGC, pedagogy, Radio Berlin International, Radio Cairo, Sauti ya Cairo, Walter Sisulu University
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