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Listening to FESTAC
As King Sunny Ade sang, welcome welcome to Nigeria… Ntone Edjabe and Kodwo Eshun hung out in the Chimurenga Library to listen close to records from or recorded for FESTAC ’77.
Hello Skinny – Relaxing at Tagore’s
Friend of PASS, Tom Skinner aka Hello Skinny visited Tagore’s Jazz Bar for the first time earlier in 2015. Upon return to London he couldn’t resist responding with records heard and some newness of his own. Tracklist: 1. 49 Americans – Taste (Intro) 2. Kalahari Surfers – Free State Fence 3. Thomas Mapfumo – Shumba 4. Kalahari Surfers – Stroll Through The Country 5. Udokotela Shange Namajah – Awungilobolele 6. Brian Isaacs/Ronald Chetty – B.C. 7. Dorothy Masuka – This …
dave phillips – live piece for PASS
Sonic activist Dave Phillips dropped in to the studio earlier today to record a piece especially for PASS. Interweaving a written text with his own prepared sounds, the audio collage offers a taste of what Keleketla Library listeners heard last week in Joburg and what’s to come at his Cape Town shows in the coming days. Tune in to PASS tonight between 7 and 8pm for the broadcast which will rerun around midnight. 10.12.2015 Capetown, South Africa. Straight No Chaser …
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PASS in NY: Africa is a Country and guests
Founded by Sean Jacobs, Africa is a Country is a blog about media, politics, music, events and football. For PASS, Africa is a Country managing editor and music section curator, Boima Tucker, invites friends and colleagues to present: Block The Road: The Sound of Afrosoca with Rishi Nath; DLife, Adrift: A soundtrack for migration with DJ Ushka (Thanu Yakupitiyage) and Sierra Leonean electronic music producer Lamin Fofana; and a discussion on photography with Zachary Rosen, Awam Amkpa, and Delphine Fawundu. …
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Tags: Africa is a Country, Lamin Fofana, PASS New York, Sean Jacobs, Thanu Yakupitiyage, Zachary Rosen
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PASS in NY: African Record Centre and Yoruba Book Centre
The Brooklyn-based African Record Centre and Yoruba Book Centre, which played a key role in introducing the cultures of the African diaspora to the United States, invite visitors to come dig in their crates. “We introduced African music to the United States. I will make that statement humbly but boastfully at the same time.” – Roger Francis (African Record Centre) Roger Francis and Rudy Francis own the African Record Centre and Yoruba Book Center in Brooklyn, New York. Roger Francis …
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PASS in NY: Freedwomen’s Bureau (Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts)
Freedwomen’s Bureau (Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts) presents a marathon reading of We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief From a Crime of The United States Government Against the Negro People (1951). “We maintain, therefore, that the oppressed Negro citizens of the United States, segregated, discriminated against and long the target of violence, suffer from genocide as the result of the consistent, conscious, unified policies of every branch of government.” We Charge Genocide (1951) Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is the …
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PASS in NY: Omar Berrada with Ambrose Bye
Writer and translator Omar Berrada offers a meditation on poetry when it holds on to the imperative of “defending the dead,” among the traumas of history and the silences of archives. He does so via recordings of performances by NourbeSe Philip, sampled with the help of Ambrose Bye (Fast Speaking Music). “Zong! not only deals with an historical event (i.e. the massacre of enslaved Africans on board the Zong in 1784), but also speaks to contemporary times, in the sense that …
PASS in NY: Rashida Bumbray with Dr. Segun Shabaka
Curator and choreographer, Rashida Bumbray hosts a conversation with Dr Segun Shabaka, Chairperson of the International African Arts Festival, Brooklyn (1971-2015). Started as a venture of independent African-centered education centres, The East and Uhuru Sasa Shule, the 43-year-old annual Brooklyn International African Arts Festival celebrates African art with music, dance, storytelling, handcrafted goods, and food vendors. “The primary driving force behind the International African Arts Festival is family – immediate, extended, community and global.” International African Arts Festival, Mission Statement …
PASS in NY: Giovanni Russonello
CapitalBop.com editor and JazzTimes contributor, Giovanni Russonello talks and listens in on South African jazz. “It was created as a redemptive force by a racially, economically marginalized community of people, and it has always had a remarkable emotional nuance to it – James Baldwin called jazz “double-edged,” and he says it has an “ironic tenacity” to it. He’s right: It’s music that thrives on both the toughness of struggle and the joy of transcendence. ” – Giovanni Russonello Giovanni Russonello is the …
PASS in NY: Marilyn Nance – FESTAC 77
Photographer and visual artist Marilyn Nance has produced exceptional photographs of unique moments in the cultural history of the United States and the African Diaspora, and possesses an archive of images of late 20th century African American life. For PASS at the Performa Hub, Marilyn will join us on Wednesday afternoon to share tales from FESTAC ’77 in Lagos where she was photographer for the North American Zone. A two-time finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography for her body …