From yesterday's dance performances performed by contemporary practicioners of the cultural influences that went into making up the cultural brew of the Caribbean and the Gulf: several from West Africa, from Cuba and from Haiti.
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LINES OF THE DAY
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15
". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153
Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
What Do We Dare?
- Foxessa
- Vulpine, canine, feline, porcine & equine avatars. Gone to heaven Gone to hell Gone to jail Gone to work Gone to school Gone to lunch Gone to bed Gone to bad Gone to pee Gone to earth. Gone Gone Gone. Fox's earth is Blue Gotham City. Shorter sojourns are spent in other, more dangerous, locations.
My Historical Research Skills On Display
- The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry; October 2015, Chicago Review Press - Lawrence Hill Books Imprint
- Postmamboism: Collected Writings (2011)
- Do Not Fear Death: Music And The Haitian Earthquake (January 2011)
- The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans (August, 2009)
- The World That Made New Orleans: Spanish Silver to Congo Square (January, 2008)
- Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo (July, 2004)
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- The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry; October, 2015, Chicago Review Press - Lawrence Hill Books imprint
- Editor of the short-listed Philip K. Dick Award original anthology, Not of Woman Born.
- From The Della Stories: The Kingdom By the Lake: "Dark Moon Murmuration", "Made By Hand", "Mrs. Langdon's Diary -OR- They Carry It Too Far".
- Neb Short Story Finalist, "Flower Kiss".
- Novels: The Horsegirl; The Stalking Horse; Stallion Queen.
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2 comments:
African dance is exhilarating.
I posted some time ago about Katherine Dunham.
I got to meet Katherine Dunham, shortly before she died. She was here in NYC, as part of a lecture-performance series on African dance forms. The entire series was deeply interesting, and I learned a whole lot.
She was very frail by then, in a chair, of course.
What struck me most were her hands. Her hands were so youthful.
The most enlightening part of the series for us was the presentation by an Egyptian musicologist who had been working all her career with the now rapidly disappearing groups out of that wetlands area called "Nubia," that the Sudanese Muslim gummit has been systematically destroying by flooding, by drainage and by masacre. She'd been working with them since the late 30's. And had photographs, movies, and later video, as well recordings.
Love, C.
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