Saturday, June 1, 2024

“Home: Call and Response” or “South Africa Summer 2024 Part 1”

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WARNING! FULL DISCLOSURES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS BLOG, PREPARE YOURSELF IF YOU HAVE DIFFICULTY WITH EMOTIONS (and after all, what else is a bl...
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Monday, January 1, 2024

The Ethnomusicology of The Color Purple - Part 1

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Happy New Year! I just saw The Color Purple 2023 this evening and I really enjoyed the movie. Like many African Americans in my generation,...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Johannesburg: Black Arts Brooklyn Down Under

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Things are off to a splendid start here in Joburg, or Jozi, as it is affectionately called.  I’ve settled into a groove. As I was walking ho...
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Monday, July 4, 2022

First Impressions of Johannesburg

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  First impressions are rarely fair. They often are instant judgments that one makes without the benefit of past experience or context. That...
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Saturday, November 16, 2019

Cold Freedom: An Ethnomusicologist's Journey to the North

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I never imagined that I would end up living in New England, in the Amherst area of Massachusetts. Why is this piece titled Cold Freedom ? B...
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Sunday, June 30, 2019

The Ethnomusicology of the BET Awards: Part 2 (Musings on Mary J Blige, Black Female Identity, Black Women Singers and the Politics of Respectability)

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Part two of this series is more of a reflection. I have heard from several other Black folks that they did not like the BET awards becaus...