Posts Tagged ‘music’
A brass band brings these Congolese youth more than music
In this lovely multimedia piece by Dutch duo Rachel Corner and Laurens Nijzink, we meet three Congolese kids with tragic pasts — and the music that unites them. A short documentary in stills and sound, without narration, “La fanfare du lendemain” is a lovely reminder that there are rich, textured stories that we don’t usually [...]
Anybody know where I can get some more of this?
Someone just shared with me this link “Ururabo,” an old Kinyarwanda song, by a band known as Rossisendi & His Group. The link has details about the record company and the album number but nothing about the band. Anyone know anything about this band, or old bands like it? I’m fascinated by this music. It’s [...]
On being on the other end of stereotype
There are a lot of ridiculous assumptions Americans hold, wittingly or not, about Africa. That it’s a country. That it’s always at war. That its people are all poor, starving and sick, and usually all of the above. We also tend to assume that Africans are illiterate. So there was a bit of collective cosmic [...]
On hearing what you want to hear
I have been keeping track, for no explicable reason, of the number of places outside of the States where I hear a song that my fellow West Virginians and I can only consider an anthem, possibly one more emotionally significant than anything Francis Scott Key ever hummed. Never mind that John Denver only traveled through [...]
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