Reading Fred Ho
A jazz suite in the key of red Gwen Ansell and Salim Washington celebrate the revolutionary life, language and hard-ass leadership of an unconventional saxophonist, composer and generous collaborator. Reading the text Prelude: Home is where the violence is “Everything I create starts with the music … [and music]… like any conscious human activity, can […]
Call for an Archive of AfroSonics
The collective improvisations of black America – and their profound impact on poetry and sound – are near impossible to find in the annals of US academe. In fact, their absence is as stark as the control of archiving is white, writes Harmony Holiday. Since the 1950s, jazz music and the literary imagination have […]
Imprinting Afrosonics
The collective improvisations of black America – and their profound impact on poetry and sound – are near impossible to find in the annals of US academe. In fact, their absence is as stark as the control of archiving is white, writes Harmony Holiday in her Call for an Archive of AfroSonics, first published in […]
Beautiful Voices – a call for AstroandAfrosonics recordings
In the spirit of National Poetry Month in America, Harmony Holiday‘s AstroandAfrosonics project is inaugurating a by-us-for-us iteration of an audio archive of poems and poetry-related material: We hope to record at least one poem or related-excerpt or piece of writing each day this month, with an emphasis on poems and texts by Black, Brown […]
Letters to Hillbrow
As part of a walk-in research project inspired by the novels Welcome to My Hillbrow (Phaswane Mpe) and The Quiet Violence of Dreams (K Sello Duiker), as well as Moses Taiwa Molelekwa’s solo-album Darkness Pass, the Johannesburg-based Keleketla! Library invited participating schoolchildren to write letters starting with the phrase “Dear Hillbrow”. The letter below is […]