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Canada Dry | Jamaica: Political Economy
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Views on what's happening in and around the Yard. Posted by The Grasshopper. Asymp; 1 Comment. Meanwhile, I’m honing my observation skills: it’s one of my assignments but one I love to do anyway. The confines of an airplane are a great laboratory. Fill that plane with Jamaicans headed to Canada and it’s funner–as kids say. The lady with the shaved head sides and back, with the bleached blonde straightened top knot just had to sit in my row, although directly next to someone else. But, I also had to endur...
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog: January 2016
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog. Instructor: Imani D. Owens, Phd. University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2016. Saturday, January 30, 2016. Student Blog Post: "Performance of Absence/Absent Performance in Fine Clothes to the Jew," by Hannah Lewis. Meaning, I believe, 'I want to write like a white poet' […] this is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge within the race toward whiteness.”. Hughes's poems attempt to catch. Something of the blu...
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog: The Anthems (a partial playlist for Shana Redmond's Anthem)
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog. Instructor: Imani D. Owens, Phd. University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2016. Tuesday, April 12, 2016. The Anthems (a partial playlist for Shana Redmond's Anthem). Nina Simone "Young, Gifted and Black". Paul Robeson, "Ol Man River" (Showboat). Mahalia Jackson, "We Shall Overcome". Public Enemy "Fight the Power". May 28, 2016 at 5:06 AM. To learn more about it see: Hip Hop Music. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog: April 2016
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog. Instructor: Imani D. Owens, Phd. University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2016. Sunday, April 24, 2016. Student Blog Post: "A Synthesis, via Solidarity, Practice, and Flow" by Laura Feibush. In that it emerges as an imperative and a struggle at the same time, the idea of solidarity strikes me as an important through-line to our semester’s reading. I mean practice in two senses. Practice as process. That’s to say, looking at race, writi...For exa...
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog: Student Blog Post: Response to Shana Redmond's Anthem, by Candice Robinson
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog. Instructor: Imani D. Owens, Phd. University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2016. Sunday, April 10, 2016. Student Blog Post: Response to Shana Redmond's Anthem, by Candice Robinson. Lift Every Voice and Sing. 8220;Within the African diaspora, music functions as a method of rebellion, revolution, and future vision…” – Shana Redmond. I have been waiting on Anthem: Social movements and the sound of solidarity in the African diaspora. Impact of gender;.
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog: Student Blog Post: "A Synthesis, via Solidarity, Practice, and Flow" by Laura Feibush
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog. Instructor: Imani D. Owens, Phd. University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2016. Sunday, April 24, 2016. Student Blog Post: "A Synthesis, via Solidarity, Practice, and Flow" by Laura Feibush. In that it emerges as an imperative and a struggle at the same time, the idea of solidarity strikes me as an important through-line to our semester’s reading. I mean practice in two senses. Practice as process. That’s to say, looking at race, writi...For exa...
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog: December 2015
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog. Instructor: Imani D. Owens, Phd. University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2016. Friday, December 11, 2015. RWS: A Partial Reading List. Farah Griffin, Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During WWII. Julian Henriques, Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing. Tsitsi Jaji, Africa In Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity. Monday, December 7, 2015. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog: “From the Isolated Soul Body to the Eccentric Performance of Collaborative Post-Soul Bodies" by Francisco Laguna-Correa
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Race, Writing, Sound: Black Music and Literary Culture Course Blog. Instructor: Imani D. Owens, Phd. University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2016. Sunday, April 17, 2016. 8220;From the Isolated Soul Body to the Eccentric Performance of Collaborative Post-Soul Bodies" by Francisco Laguna-Correa. 8220;Eccentric performances are fueled by contradictory. Desires for recognition and freedom” (8–9). Or at least attempts to break. And generally the post-soul performers analyzed by Royster. Articulate a continuous coll...
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Happy birthday, to me! But, let’s all celebrate Jamaica’s Independence | Jamaica: Political Economy
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Views on what's happening in and around the Yard. Happy birthday, to me! But, let’s all celebrate Jamaica’s Independence. Posted by The Grasshopper. Asymp; Leave a comment. Fifty four years ago, in September, my parents decided to leave Jamaica, and try their luck with work in England. The following August, Jamaica gained its independence from Great Britain. Did we make such an impact on the minds of the British that they wanted to let us go on with our national lives ourselves? The family had sampled we...
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Golfing age tells you little about playing ability: Take on your old man at your peril | Jamaica: Political Economy
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Views on what's happening in and around the Yard. Golfing age tells you little about playing ability: Take on your old man at your peril. Posted by The Grasshopper. Asymp; Leave a comment. Professional golf acknowledges this slow tapering by having its Champions Tour. Imagine, if the EPL, or NFL, or Major League Baseball or track and field had formal schedules for older players. Does it bear thinking about Shaq trying to dunk as a 50 year old, and landing heavily on MJ? As I write, we see this inter-gene...