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Music
Daphne A. Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution
By George GrellaAdored by audiences and critics through the years, Brooks gets behind the pop fandom and the cultural image-making and puts plainly in front of the reader’s gaze how Black women musical artists are, by their very nature, revolutionary cultural figures.
Shwabada
By Adolf AlzupharZulu music exists in multitudes: mbaqanga, maskandi, marabi, kwaito, jazz, isicathamiya (choral), etc. Much of Zulu contributions to music shares a shwabada, a Zulu term that means spiritual lineage.
Language Muddles Music: Sebastián Maria
By S. DavidThe thread between structure and consciousness weighs on the mind of Sebastián Maria, the Colombian-American composer, producer, and DJ based in New York City.
Beans and the Avant-Garde in Hip Hop
By Rob DuguayComing from White Plains, Beans has been doing things his own way since the mid-’90s. His unique style is multi-dimensional and it’s not the typical boom bap hip hop, it’s an approach that’s his own artistic identity.
Listening In: Keshav Batish, Both/And
By Scott GuttermanBatish celebrates hybridity, while also recognizing its costs.
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