oy. sorry for posting again. but i was digging through hiphop songs and Brother Ali threw this line into the first bar of Uncle Sam Goddamn, and i couldn't continue without revisting the original.
really think about that line for a second. to be writing songs for futures and future audiences that don't even exist yet (because at the time, such a song was written knowing it would and was banned from being played by most White-controlled radio stations in the U.S., concert venues and just censored in general). to write lyrics of a present that she knew wouldn't be part of any curriculum or history book in her lifetime (at least within Institutions).
Tangent. Instead, like many jazz and blues musicians that came before her, she would end up touring in Europe, to support her craft - where this song would be requested.... as if there wasn't just as much White priviledge was at work. But they put on a face of separation and superiority, as if their institutions and governments hadn't set thousand year old blueprints for what economic, racial, gender, and class enslavement and colonialism looks like, even today. tangent. the same forms of objectification were present, but it was dressed up as an open invitation. tangent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M
anyways. really listen. and then to every other more-than goddamn intonation.
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again all that resounds from Angela's Davis talk on tuesday, and then her talks from youtube last week.
the calls for 'go slow' are just the same exercised today. but working within a schema of reformation still works within the value-system and those already legible forms of knowledge and organization within the existing dominant power structures (White-male-middleclass).....
and the politics of 'inclusion' only tries to subsume cultures and bodies into the supposed 'neutral' centre already occupied by this Whiteness and nuerotypicality. tangent.
and beyond that --- this idea of resistance as a working with future worlds, not just future times, but worlds not yet know. the imaginings and all that can't be organized within the world as we know it know. tangent.
live take:
p.s.
ok. and just to give Sister Rosetta Tharpe another chance to shine, outside of a critique of her staging for european audiences /// Little Richard and Chuck Berry were all taking notes from her -- she was the first to combine gospel traditions with music stylings that didn't even have the name rock and roll yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ
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bonus material:
really think about that line for a second. to be writing songs for futures and future audiences that don't even exist yet (because at the time, such a song was written knowing it would and was banned from being played by most White-controlled radio stations in the U.S., concert venues and just censored in general). to write lyrics of a present that she knew wouldn't be part of any curriculum or history book in her lifetime (at least within Institutions).
Tangent. Instead, like many jazz and blues musicians that came before her, she would end up touring in Europe, to support her craft - where this song would be requested.... as if there wasn't just as much White priviledge was at work. But they put on a face of separation and superiority, as if their institutions and governments hadn't set thousand year old blueprints for what economic, racial, gender, and class enslavement and colonialism looks like, even today. tangent. the same forms of objectification were present, but it was dressed up as an open invitation. tangent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M
anyways. really listen. and then to every other more-than goddamn intonation.
...
again all that resounds from Angela's Davis talk on tuesday, and then her talks from youtube last week.
the calls for 'go slow' are just the same exercised today. but working within a schema of reformation still works within the value-system and those already legible forms of knowledge and organization within the existing dominant power structures (White-male-middleclass).....
and the politics of 'inclusion' only tries to subsume cultures and bodies into the supposed 'neutral' centre already occupied by this Whiteness and nuerotypicality. tangent.
and beyond that --- this idea of resistance as a working with future worlds, not just future times, but worlds not yet know. the imaginings and all that can't be organized within the world as we know it know. tangent.
live take:
p.s.
ok. and just to give Sister Rosetta Tharpe another chance to shine, outside of a critique of her staging for european audiences /// Little Richard and Chuck Berry were all taking notes from her -- she was the first to combine gospel traditions with music stylings that didn't even have the name rock and roll yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ
....
bonus material:
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