Ned Sublette may be my favorite living author and public intellectual. His knowledge of Afro-Atlantic culture is so deep and so connected, and the way he expresses it so fluid and untroubled. Rare. His books on the musics of Cuba and New Orleans, and the historical contexts that shaped them, are both rich, great reads.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Fun in Durham -- er, Derm
Onda Carolina: abre kuta güiri mambo ... plena ... jazz.
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Hear, hear! I agree completely! He makes good music, too.
O, baby, you should have been present yesterday when he ROCKED the Haiti Teach-In at Baruch. The students were mesmerized. They didn't text, doze, whisper, fidget, or leave. Their focus was so great I could feel my shoulders prickle.
But then, all of the presenters were great. He was classified as 'media critic, 'f for this, and he was, well, the best, with the mostest, and the fastest. His graphics were perfect, a point, rather than an ornamentation.
I knew everything that was in his presentation -- in fact I found a lot of the stuff. But I was as breathless as everyone else.
And then we had to go and teach for 1 3/4 -- well, there were 3 of us, at least.
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