The Clash – "White Riot" (1977), White Riot - Directed By Rubika Shah (2020)


"'White Riot';is a song by English punk rock band the Clash, released as the band's first single in March 1977 and also included on their self-titled debut album. ... There are two versions of the song: the single version (also appearing on the US version of the album released in 1979), was one of the first songs they recorded at CBS Studio 3 on Whitfield Street in Central London, after signing with CBS Records. ... Lyrically, the song is about class economics and race and thus proved controversial; some people thought it was advocating a kind of race war. ... In an interview with the New Musical Express in December 1976, Joe Strummer responded angrily to the suggestion that some people misinterpreted the 'White Riot' lyrics as racist, saying, 'They're not racist! They're not racist at all!'. Strummer pointed out that inner-city black youth were now fighting back against poverty and heavy-handed policing. 'White Riot' was a call to arms to white youth to fight back in the same way and have, in the words of the song, 'a riot of my own'. ..."

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An elegy for a surreal East Village dive bar that welcomed those in the shadows


"There’s something about legendary East Village bars that leave New Yorkers mourning them even decades after they close their doors. The tenth anniversary of the shuttering of Mars Bar in 2011, the gritty dive on Second Avenue and East First Street, merited tribute posts recalling its eclectic mix of regulars. Brownie’s, on Avenue A, pulled the plug in 2002, but Gen X fans are still reminiscing about the bands they saw there. So it seems unusual that one old-school East Village haunt has no Facebook fan group posting photos and videos, no articles bemoaning the reasons behind its closure. 
That haunt would be Eileen’s Reno Bar, a hole in the wall at 175 Second Avenue between 11th and 12th Streets. ..."


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VA - The World Needs Changing. Street Funk & Jazz Grooves 1967-1976 (2013)


"... Fortunately for those of you who like multi-artist collections, we’re sending a couple your way in the next two months, starting off with this wonderful look at black American music from the late 60s to the mid-1970s – basically from the start of funk to the rise of disco. The music within brings together a cross section of great sounds that would grace – and in many cases already have – any DJ’s record box. Take Little Eva, whose medley of ‘Get Ready / Uptight’ was championed by Eddie Piller at Snowboy’s Goodfoot Night at Madam Jo Jo’s and is now a clubland staple. Willard Posey’s medley was a big Keb Darge spin at the same venue a decade earlier, whilst Esther Marrow’s wondrous vocal version of ‘Walk Tall’ has for a long time been one of my DJ secret weapons. ..."






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A Researcher Chisels New Perspectives on Ancient Art

Sculpted in 521 BCE, the Behistun relief in Iran is a massive carving with more than 400 lines of inscription and huge figurines. Its size, location and visibility suggest it was used for propaganda.

"Whether pelted by sleet in spring or slapped by a harsh summer sun, groups of graduate and post-doctoral students have clambered, undaunted, through the rocky Zagros Mountains near Iraq’s border with Iran. Their feet slipping in the mud and skittering through ravines, they have lugged tripods and long-lens, high-resolution digital cameras to document reliefs that artists carved into the limestone mountainside more than 3,000 years ago. This spring marks the seventh expedition that Zainab Bahrani, chair of Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology, has conducted in northern Iraq and southwestern Turkey since establishing the Mapping Mesopotamian Monuments project in 2012.  ..."


A centuries-older stone staircase and rock reliefs, paying equal attention to the site’s Islamic and pre-Islamic elements.
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Ström Noir – Jouska & Hands Like Clouds – Mountain King (Blue Marble 1972)


"Blue Marble 1972 is a new label from Poland, launched with unique styling. Its music is boxed in a taller, slightly skinnier version of the classic digipak, which is a great look, particularly when graced by such nice cover art and striking typography. These are the imprint’s first two releases. The legend of the 'mountain king' is a pan-European messianic fable re-told countless times, about an ancient monarch or champion who sleeps under a distant mountain and who, when the time is come, will rise and lead his people to glory. Mountain King by Hands Like Clouds is the tenth-year anniversary edition of a one-off effort made available only in a tiny run by the Polish ambient artist who records as Ghosts of Breslau, accompanied by a host of sidemen from the Portuguese psychedelic folk group The Joy of Nature. ..."

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Big Road Blues Show: Learning The Blues – Forgotten Blues Heroes 25

Willie Guy Rainey, Palmetto, GA, Sept. 1978

"Today’s show is part of a semi-regular feature I call Forgotten Blues Heroes that spotlights great, but little remembered and little recorded blues artists that don’t really fit into my weekly themed shows. This time out, several down home musicians who recorded a handful of records between the late 60s and early 80s. Singer and guitar/ukulele player Lewis 'Rabbit' Muse was born in Virginia, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. He recorded two fine, long-out-of-print albums, for the Outlet label in the mid-70s. Willie Guy Rainey played music at parties and on the streets of small towns near Atlanta. He finally began playing bars in Atlanta and was 'discovered' by music teacher, Ross Kapstein. Guy recorded one album, Willie Guy Rainey in 1978 with the help of Kapstein for Southland in 1978 and was the subject of a short film. George and Ethel McCoy were a brother and sister duo who lived in St. Louis and who’s aunt was Memphis Minnie. ..."


Rabbit Muse, back cover of Muse Blues 
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Gallery New Orleans

Double galleries at the LaBranche Buildings in the French Quarter

"In New Orleans, a gallery is a wide platform projecting from the wall of a building supported by posts or columns. Galleries are typically constructed from cast iron (or wrought iron in older buildings) with ornate balusters, posts, and brackets. The intricate iron balconies and galleries of the French Quarter are among the renowned icons of New Orleans. The City of New Orleans provides specific definitions for platforms projecting from the face of the building, differentiating between balconies and galleries. Balconies typically have a projection width of up to 4 feet (1.2 m), lacking supporting posts and a roof structure. In contrast, galleries are platforms extending beyond property lines to cover the full width of the public sidewalk, supported by posts or columns at the street curb. Galleries may or may not include a roof cover. ..."

Pontalba's monogram on ironwork


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Hélène Vogelsinger – Bird Singer

Panharmonium by Rossum Electronic

"1. Favourite knob/fader/switch on a piece of gear and why? There are so many! I’ll go with the first one that comes to mind; The satisfaction of turning an arpeggio into a celestial pad in just a few seconds, it’s by turning the mix knob of the Panharmonium (Rossum Electronic) that you can achieve it. Layering is truly integral to my musical identity. And this module is just incredible for that purpose. There isn’t a piece where it’s not present. ... 3. What setup do you bring on holiday/tour/commute etc.? It’s been years and years since I’ve properly been on vacation, but when I travel, it’s never without my session setup; my two modular cases, my small Mackie mixer, my portable recorders, and the battery that powers all this little world. It fills up the car trunk quite a bit, I must admit, but nothing is impossible with my old Volvo; the modularmobile  I always have at least one recorder on me, to capture as many sounds and atmospheres as possible. A reflex that stayed with me after my video game sound design training. ..."



Two modular cases in the trunk of The ModularMobile
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi (2020)


"The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is a 2020 book by Rashid Khalidi, in which the author describes the Zionist claim to Palestine in the century spanning 1917–2017 as late settler colonialism and an instrument of British and then later American imperialism, doing so by focusing on a series of six major episodes the author characterizes as 'declarations of war' on the Palestinian people. In the book, Khalidi—historian and Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University—argues that the struggle in Palestine should be understood, not as one between two equal national movements fighting over the same land, but rather as 'a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.' In addition to the more traditional sources and methods employed by a historian, the author in this book draws on family archives, stories passed down through his family from generation to generation, and his own experiences, as an activist in various circles and as someone who has been involved in negotiations among Palestinian groups and with Israelis. ..."





Large bundles of personal possessions are carried on the head of Palestinian women and children flee the Israeli offensive that established the state of Israeli in 1948.
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Strategy Is a Craft

Protesters demonstrate at Zuccotti Park on the second anniversary of the start of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

"In their new book, Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce argue that progressives need a strategy upgrade. As they explain, “We wrote this book because we think that the practice of rigorous strategy on the Left has deteriorated in recent years.” This development, they believe, stands in contrast to tendencies among conservatives, who since the 1970s have committed themselves to a comprehensive—and premeditated—drive to broaden their coalition, win control of key social institutions, and wield state power. ..."




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How Humanity Got Hooked on Coffee: An Animated History

"Few of us grow up drinking coffee, but once we start drinking it, even fewer of us ever stop. According to legend, the earliest such case was a ninth-century Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi, who noticed how much energy his ruminant charges seemed to draw from eating particular red berries. After chewing a few of them himself, he experienced the first caffeine buzz in human history. Despite almost certainly never having existed, Kaldi now lends his name to a variety of coffee shops around the world, everywhere from Addis Ababa to Seoul, where I live. His story also opens the animated TED-Ed video above, 'How Humanity Got Hooked on Coffee.' ..."

His story also opens the animated TED-Ed video above, “How Humanity Got Hooked on Coffee.”


2010 September: Espresso, 2013 April: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World, 2013 May: Coffeehouse, 2015 June: Barista, 2015 August: Coffee Connections at Peddler in SoHo, 2015 November: The Case for Bad Coffee, 2016 January: 101 Places to Find Great Coffee in New York (2014), 2017 June: How Cold Brew Changed the Coffee Business, 2017 September: Our 7 Favorite Literary Coffee Shops, 2017 October: Clever Literary Coffee Poster, 2017 October: Coffee as Existential Statement: A Crisis in Every Cup on Valencia Street, 2018 February: The Trencherman: A Tale of Two Coffee Shops, 2020 April: Unfair trade, April 2020: A (Very) Brief History of NYC Espresso, 2020 May: The Islamic History of Coffee, 2021 January: The Life Cycle of a Cup of Coffee: The Journey from Coffee Bean, to Coffee Cup, 2021 June: Philosophers Drinking Coffee: The Excessive Habits of Kant, Voltaire & Kierkegaard, 2021 July:  The invisible addiction: is it time to give up caffeine?, August 2021: The Birth of Espresso: How the Coffee Shots The Fuel Our Modern Life Were Invented, 2021 October: Brew: A Brief History of Coffee, 2021 November: Coffee and Climate Have a Complicated Relationship, 2022 January: The Bialetti Moka Express: The History of Italy’s Iconic Coffee Maker, and How to Use It the Right Way, 2022 April: All Espresso Drinks Explained: Cappuccino, Latte, Macchiato & Beyond, 2022 June: How to Make the Perfect Cup of Italian Coffee, 2022 August: Café A Brasileira, 2022 August: It’s Not Just You — Blank Street Coffee Is Suddenly Inescapable, 2023 March:  Understanding Espresso: A Six-Part Series Explaining What It Takes to Pull the Ideal Shot

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Healthcare in Gaza is in a state of acute trauma

A Palestinian man walks past a heavily damaged building of the author's alma mater, Islamic University of Gaza [UIG}, in Gaza City, on February 15, 2024.

"On October 7, my morning began like any other, at least on the surface. As a surgical resident who takes great pride in his job, I did my rounds with patients amid the usual hustle and bustle of the hospital, and then scrubbed in to operate on an emergency case alongside one of my mentors. When I felt the metal coldness of the scalpel in my hand, however, perhaps for the first time in my career, I did not feel a thrill. I did not experience the profound joy that normally comes with the opportunity to improve a person’s life on the operating table. My attending surgeon sensed something was amiss, and asked me what was wrong. I shared with him the news I had received from my mother back home: the bombing had started. Gaza, my home, was under attack. He listened, and tears started to form in his eyes. When I saw him, a non-Palestinian, share my pain, something cracked in me, and I broke down. ..."





NY Times: The first seaborne aid to Gaza could depart Cyprus as early as Saturday.

Palestinian children suffering from malnutrition receive treatment at a health care center in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 5, 2024.
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Kahil El'Zabar's 'Spirit Groove' ft. David Murray


"Legendary multi-percussionist and spiritual jazz master Kahil El’Zabar continues his quest of spirit through groove in his collaboration with tenor sax colossus, David Murray. ‘Spirit Groove’ is the divining moment upon their incredible journey to meaningful art. This is a phenomenal album, adding an entirely new, elevated dimension to the Spirit of Groove! In the Kahil El'Zabar's own words ‘Spirit Groove’ "intends to move you nakedly with a deep sense of dance on a Mind/Body/Spirit level. From the mouths of Bebop music masters, who were my mentors and that I also had the distinct honor to play with – such as Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball Adderley, Eddie Harris, Malachi Favors, Jodie Christine, Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, they all expressed to me that in the beginning of Bebop, people everywhere danced with Spirit to the music of Charlie Parker! This is the moment to rekindle the motion of social relevance within the legacy of jazz as an improvised people’s movement for social change!... ”



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The Women at the Table: Writers, Artists, and Photographers in the Early Days of the Voice

Nell Blaine (photographer unknown), ca. the late 1950s. The image has been heavily airbrushed and highlighted with white retouching paint, a common practice in those days. (The “Pentagon” note in the upper-right corner may refer to the Pentagon Printing Co., one of many print service houses in the city in the postwar era.)

"In the current season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Abe Weissman—protagonist Midge Maisel’s father—is greeted by the crabbily avuncular staff on his first day of work as a Village Voice theater critic. 'Kennedy for President' posters are plastered throughout the bustling office, and as the editor makes introductions around a conference table plunked right in the middle of the hubbub, we meet the only woman on the editorial staff, Bernie, who is given the straightforward title 'News.' Considering that the story is set in 1960, that’s about right, since at the real-world Voice that year, Mary Perot Nichols was listed simply as 'News' on the masthead, editing other journalists and writing her own coverage of street-level concerns in the city. ..."

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The Art and History of Lettering Comics


"... INTRODUCTION by Neil Gaiman: They say that Laozi, the semi-legendary Old Master, wrote down what he knew about the Way in the Tao Te Ching at the request of a city gatekeeper, before leaving the city, and walking out of history into the western wilderness. I wrote my first comics for Karen Berger at DC Comics in 1987. It was called Black Orchid, and was painted by Dave McKean. 'I’m assigning Todd Klein as letterer,' said Karen. 'Todd’s the best we have.' Todd lettered Black Orchid, beginning perhaps my longest professional relationship, and I did not know how lucky I was then. But I knew I wanted Todd for Sandman, and I never had cause ever to regret that decision. No matter how strange or difficult or time-consuming my lettering request, Todd would always come through for me. He made magic. ..."


Zap Comix #0 back cover, © Robert Crumb
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Arabian Masters (The Golden Age) by Various Share


"Culled from the archives of EMI Arabia, this stunning 15 hour collection is dedicated to showcasing the fabulous talent of classical Arabic musicians and includes incredible vocal work from Algerian-born diva Warda, the famous Abdel Halim Hafez of Egypt, a full 50 minute dramatic performance of 'La Ya Sadiqi' (No My Friend) by Iraqi Kazem el-Saher, an instrumental number by Lebanese violinist Abboud Abdel Aal and best of all, legendary Lebanese singer Fairouz, It also includes performances by Egytian heavyweights, Mohammad Abdul Wahab, Hamid el-Shari, Layla Mourad and Oum Kalthoum, the MOTHER of Arabic classical music, all backed by full orchestras. Keeping with Arabic tradition, the songs tend to be fairly long (about 10 minutes or so on average - Or up to 40 minutes!), so you can truly enjoy each performance. This beautiful 120 track collection, spans over 15 hours, so If you love Arabic or Middle Eastern music, particularly the classical styles, this is well worth adding to your Moochin' collections.... Asmaham - Warda - Mohamed Abdel Wahab - Oum Kalsoum - Nagat Al Saghira - Claude Ciari - Sabah - Sabah Fakhri - Abboud Abdel 'Aal - Abdel Halim Hafez -  - Fairouz - Mohammed Abdu - Kazem El - Saher - Layla Mourad - Farid El Atrache - Wadih Al Safi ..."


Fairouz 
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ACL 2024 ~ Spring Music Preview: Ambient & Drone


"Astronomical spring is only two weeks away, and hundreds of spring albums have begun to poke through the sonic ether like crocuses and daffodils through dirt.  In a few weeks time, the bouquets will become fields, and the hills will be alive with the sound of new music.  We love this time of year, as we’re venturing outside without jackets, putting away the sweaters, opening the windows and letting the fresh air in.  After a somewhat slow winter, the music industry is also awakening from a months-long hibernation, with shows and festival announcements galore.  This week, we’ll be previewing all the music we have permission to share in advance.  We hope you’ll enjoy the 2024 edition of our Spring Music Preview, beginning with Ambient & Drone! ..."


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As France celebrates, it doesn’t seem like 150 years since the first impressionist exhibition

Auguste Renoir: Bal du Moulin de la Galette, 1876.

"... By the standards to which European artists had cleaved for the previous four centuries, Impression, Sunrise isn’t a finished work of art at all but an oil sketch. 'An impression indeed!' the critic Louis Leroy sneered when it was unveiled along with works by Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and more in an 1874 group show. Another critic dismissed the works as 'paint scrapings from a palette spread evenly over a dirty canvas'. But it was Leroy’s review that bit, with his parting shot that the entire show was 'the exhibition of impressionists'. The name stuck and 150 years on, the first impressionist exhibition is being commemorated in France with the enthusiasm the British reserve for a royal wedding. The Musée d’Orsay’s exhibition 1874: Inventing Impressionism opens on 26 March, with other impressionist shows coming in Strasbourg, Tourcoing, Clermont-Ferrand, Chartres, Nantes, Bordeaux, with an impressionist festival planned in Monet’s Normandy. ..."


Camille Pissarro: The Boulevard Montmartre at Night, 1897
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Maureen Gallace’s Elemental Realm

“Crashing Waves, Late September” (2023).

"The English landscape painter John Constable died roughly 200 years ago, but lightning-fast brushstrokes that echo the agitated clouds and roiling waves he depicted keep his paintings looking astoundingly fresh compared to the varnished stillness of many of his compatriots’ canvases. An ocean away and a couple of centuries later, the pounding surf in Maureen Gallace’s 'Crashing Wave, Late September' (2023) conjures a similar immediacy, but one that has also subsumed the frissons of modernity — all those revolutions of expression and abstraction that have continually rejuvenated the bloodline of an art form that stretches back tens of millennia to pigment on cave walls. In the 1950s, Jackson Pollock looked out at the Atlantic from the far end of Long Island; Gallace (born 1960) surveys the expanse of Long Island Sound from Connecticut. Pollock worked at mural scale, Gallace on panels that are often less than a foot across, and yet both artists’ compositions pulse with visceral gestures constrained only by the frame edges.





"Summer Porch" (2023)
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The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow (2019)


"The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow (subtitled 50th Anniversary Box) is a seventeen-CD plus one-DVD box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow; it was released by RēR Megacorp in November 2019. ... The Henry Cow Box Redux was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the formation of Henry Cow. Included in the box set are three 60-page booklets: Book 1: The Studio Volumes 1–7; Book 2: The Road Volumes 8–12; and Book 3: The Road Volumes 13–17. All the studio CDs were remastered by Bob Drake. RēR Megacorp also released the Ex Box bonus CD as a free-standing album. ... A review of The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow in Moors Magazine called Henry Cow 'one of the most fascinating and best British bands ever'. It described their music as having 'the mentality of free jazz and the discipline of the intelligent rock of Zappa'. It was always 'exciting' and 'surprising" music and just as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. The reviewer concluded that "[t]his box is an absolute must for lovers of intelligent jazz rock.' ..."





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Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the garden... (2023)


"Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden is the tenth solo studio album by American jazz saxophonist Matana Roberts. The album was released on September 29, 2023, by Constellation Records, and is the fifth in Roberts' ongoing Coin Coinalbum series. The album's narrative centers an ancestor of Roberts who died from an illegal abortion. Roberts first announced the album on June 14, 2023, for a September 29 release date by Constellation Records, and released the first three songs, 'We Said', 'Different Rings', and 'Unbeknownst', as a suite. ... The album blends a number of genres including folk, avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, post-bop, spoken word, noise, post-rock, hymns, free jazz, and chamber jazz. The variety of instruments is broader than past Roberts albums, including saxophones, violin, drums, and tin whistle. ..."






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John Vasquez Mejias


"With their sharp depictions of political upheaval via hyper-evocative caricature, John Vasquez Mejias’s woodcut panels update the printmaking stylistics forged by the German Expressionists. The forthcoming hardcover edition of Mejias’s The Puerto Rican War comprises ninety-six woodcut panels. It tells the story of the 1950s revolutionary uprising in Puerto Rico against the colonialists, which included a failed assassination attempt against President Harry S. Truman. The book contemplates the complexity and contradictions inherent to the possession of a moral compass, while bringing this lesser-known piece of history to a new audience. Through his visual storytelling, Mejias offers the prospect of a deepened affinity with his heritage. ..."





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Why Iran Hates America – A Fareed Zakaria Special


"When the terrorist organization Hamas brutally attacked Israel and took dozens of hostages on October 7, 2023, it ignited brutal repercussions that have destroyed Gaza, imperiled Red Sea transit, and launched a bloody conflict that threatens to spread to neighboring nations – and allies on nearly every continent. Behind the stunning violence, have been Iran and her proxies. On Sunday, Feb. 25, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, host of the global public affairs program Fareed Zakaria GPS, leads the one-hour special, Why Iran Hates America (8:00pm ET CNN & CNN International). The special traces the roots of the current conflagration to Britain’s post-World War II colonial embers. Zakaria discusses stunning evidence with contributors, and revealed in declassified and leaked documents, that American and British intelligence – including a grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt – fomented a coup in 1953 that led to the deposing of Iran’s prime minister. The operation ultimately backfired, leading to the Iranian Islamic revolution that continues to have consequences for the entire Middle East. ..."

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Sound system Jamaican

Coxson Dodd

"In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music. The sound system is an important part of Jamaican culture and history. The sound system concept first became popular in the 1940s, in the parish of Kingston. DJs would load up a truck with a generator, turntables, and huge speakers and set up street parties. Tom the Great Sebastian, founded by Chinese-Jamaican businessman Tom Wong, was the first commercially successful sound system and influenced many sound systems that came later. In the beginning, the DJs played American rhythm and blues music, but as time progressed and more local music was created, the sound migrated to a local flavour. ... By the mid-1950s, sound systems were more popular at parties than live musicians, and by the second half of the decade, custom-built systems began to appear from the workshops of specialists such as Hedley Jones, who constructed wardrobe-sized speaker cabinets known as 'House[s] of Joy'. ..."

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Hedley Jones: The Renaissance Man Who Pioneered Jamaican Soundsystem Culture

The Mysteries of Soundman Metro

The Roots of Sound Systems

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YouTube: Sole Sound System

Hedley Jones at Work
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Catherine Christer Hennix (1948–2023)


"Pathbreaking experimental Swedish musician, artist, and polymath Catherine Christer Hennix, whose mesmerizing drone compositions embodied her vision of music as endless, died of an undisclosed illness November 19 at her home in Istanbul. She was seventy-five. Her death was announced by arts organization Blank Forms, which distributed her work. Hennix in such pioneering compositions as The Electric Harpsichord and Central Palace Music (both 1976) welded mathematics and tone to offer listeners what she cast as 'a sustained out-of-body experience in an altered state of consciousness.' ... Around this time, thanks to Stockholm’s vibrant jazz scene and her mother’s role in it, she saw such greats of the era as multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, saxophonist John Coltrane, trumpeter Miles Davis, and pianist Cecil Taylor perform live; Coltrane especially would loom large in the formation of her sound. While studying first biochemistry, then theoretical linguistics, and finally mathematical logic at Stockholm University, Hennix began composing works for the massive mainframe computers at Stockholm’s Elektronmusikstudion, working in the vein of Karlheinz Stockhausen before abandoning the complicated avant-garde style. ..."
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After Two Years of War, A Weary Ukraine Remains Defiant

A residential building heavily damaged in Russian military strikes, Avdiivka, Ukraine, Nov. 8, 2023.

"The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was supposed to be an easy win for President Vladimir Putin. Eight years earlier, Russian soldiers had invaded eastern Ukraine, gained control of two cities, Donetsk and Luhansk, and annexed the Crimean Peninsula in just one month. In the aftermath of the invasion, many commentators predicted that Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, would fall to Russian soldiers in a matter of days. ... February 24 marks the two-year anniversary of the largest land war in Europe since World War II. No Ukrainian has been spared impact by the conflict, which has leveled entire towns, displaced 10 million, killed at least 10,000 civilians, and injured another 18,500. But in the darkness of war, Ukrainians have banded together to support their country and its people. Over the past two years, the Voice has corresponded with Ukrainian soldiers, volunteers, municipal workers, and civilians caught in a country in conflict. In light of the anniversary of the war, we reconnected with some of our previous correspondents to learn how their lives have changed since we last spoke. ..."








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