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‘Drawing on the context of mulid festivals and Sufi inshad, the “mulid” trend samples, imitates and remixes elements of mulid festival music, lyrics, and cultural references into a distinct form of boisterous, youth-oriented dance music.’ :: great article
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amazing video of tashkil dancing in egypt :: trad trance meets psy-trance, sufism meets soundsystem, on a cairo street (via jennifer peterson)
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funny how the stars in jamaican pop — despite the enduring presence of singers — continue to come from more traditionally ‘peripheral’ roles: DJs (U-Roy), selectors (Tony Matterhorn), and now dancers (see post)
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‘ “The ethnoids,” Mr. Lewiston said, using his joshing term for ethnomusicologists, “can’t stand me. They’ll review one of my records, picking every nit they possibly can. And then the final line will be ‘The sounds on this album are superb.’ ‘
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“David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I for nearly 40 years, and his lectures are now available online for the first time.” h/t k/h
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brynmore williams’s short, sweet film on bees, beekeepers, and buzzing @ 440 Hz
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“Once considered outcasts, the b-boys now seem to embody precisely the kind of dynamic, dexterous and youthful excellence that the [Korean] government wants to project.” :: jeff chang on the rise of korean b-boying
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Bees In The Key of A from brynmore on Vimeo.
Loved loved loved Jeff’s piece, which in some unstated ways begins to address some of the issues you’re talking about re: the Black-centered-ness of “nu whirled” interest. Given that it’s still about Afro-originated hip hop, it doesn’t entirely take us out of Afro-referents, but I liked how giving Korean b-boying an identity of its own (or Russian or Belgian b-boying) allows us to start talking about the dance as a now Korean form (the same way its OK to talk about re-rooted polka or waltz without always having to go all the way back to Euro origins). And there was something in the body vocabulary, in the moves, that to my uneducated eyes seemed to have other antecedents (the same way he says that the Brazilians incorporate capoeira and the Russians seemed to have this Cossack thing going). Man, I want to be Jeff when I grow up.