Postmambo Studies

Your occasional reminder that this playlist is beyond delicious and regularly refreshed open.spotify.com/playlist/1ca...

Pleneros in Puerto Rico protesting against Luma, the power company.

I saw this a few days ago and it is fantastic. And really worth seeing with an audience - especially in Harlem at the Magic Johnson! Go to one of these screenings if you have the chance.

I will be attending the Sō Percussion performance of Steve Reich's "Drumming" next Wednesday at @92ndstreety.bsky.social, which should be a great concert. But charging an $11 "In-Person Event Fee" is absolute bullshit! The fee is mentioned nowhere until you are about to check out. Shameful.

Best mayor ever.

Thread for scholars

1933: Prohibition ends, and the proprietor of 25, a 42-year-old bar where Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton, and others used to gather, is inspired: "With BEER as my sail, and all my CUSTOMERS as crew, I am going to pilot the GOOD SHIP '25' through prosperity for the next forty-two years."

New episode archived @wfmu.bsky.social Leap Life: Saul Williams Interview STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Studio time.

YES. JESUS CHRIST YES. ITS ONLY BEEN AROUND 3 YEARS. WE DON'T NEED IT. www.techspot.com/news/114234-...

Based in the barrios of San Juan, with visits to Loiza (pictured), Mayagüez, Ponce. Meet musicians, historians.

Will announce this only one time on BSky: the Jan. 4-14 Postmambo Puerto Rican Music Seminar will close registration soon. 10 days of immersion in Puerto Rican music, with emphasis on bomba and plena, and much more. Danny Rivera, Nelson Gonzalez, Miguel Zenón, Viento de Agua, more. DM for details.

Miles Coltrane Randy Weston Foucault

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

Just a reminder: This traitorous MFer would still be in prison if he hadn't taken a pardon from his co-conspirator.

This is the behavior of a dictator. All elected officials must full-throatedly condemn this lawless act of intimidation. I stand with @ilhanmn.bsky.social.

Solar canopies above crops produced clean energy while reducing heat stress, boosting summer yields by 20% and improving barley quality in field trials.

In March 1727, the coastal kingdom of Ouidah let out its sacred serpents to protect its northern border. But the power of the snake-god proved ineffective against the invading Dahomean soldiers, who slew the sacred serpents with their swords. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-swords...

🎵 Disco nuevo www.cancioneros.com/co/13018/2/r...

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There’s a second line to bring early voters from Treme to New Orleans’ City Hall to cast ballots on October 24th

This is true.

No, the hottest way of showing you’re a New Yorker is going to the ER with a broken wrist after getting hit by a CitiBike.

Postmambo is in Santurce, Puerto Rico, looking at the art outside Taller Comunidad La Goyco

THIS

A longtime devotee goes back through more than four decades of Hassell’s music and talks with co-producer Jeff Rona about the ‘City’ sessions, the self-sampling, and the posthumous ‘Music Is Invisible.’ The Tonearm’s Blake Leyh has skin in the game. Life and Death in Jon Hassell’s Fourth World:

Postmambo is at La Factoría in Viejo San Juan on a night when the music is so old school that the first number is Chano Pozo’s “El Pin Pin” (1945), celebrating the Allied victory over Japan: “Pin, pin, cayó Berlin, Pon, pon, cayó japón.”

Postmambo is in Santurce, Puerto Rico, where the poster reads: “the banks have houses without people / the pueblo has people without houses.”

Postmambo is in Santurce, Puerto Rico, at El Gandul, a hamburger joint where Sunday is rumba night, later on. Plena is Wednesday.

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Postmambo is in San Juan, at the tomb of Ismael Rivera.

Postmambo is in San Juan, at the tomb of Ismael Rivera.

Postmambo is in Puerto Rico. Preparing for the music seminar we’re doing there Jan 4-14.

Remember when T***p ordered a bunch of pianos for his hotel then stiffed the vendor, putting him out of business?

Rubio will be remembered as one of the cruelest men in Cuban history.

They’re not dropping bombs on Cuba, but this is siege warfare. They don’t care if there’s a single Cuban left alive if they can grab the territory and the minerals. All of the 8 million or so left on the island will be traumatized for life as a result of what they’ve experienced just this year.

Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!

This is one of the most amazing books I have ever been honored to work on. Around 40 years of oral & documentary history about Selassie's visit to Jamaica and the Caribbean which transformed the place of Rastafarians in Jamaican society. A historic volume.

I keep thinking about this. I wonder who slept under that beautiful quilt, and what it was like when they pulled the solar system over their shoulders at night to protect them from the Iowa winter cold.

In the autumn of 1883, a national paper reported that "an Iowa woman has spent seven years embroidering the solar system on a quilt." Ellen Harding Baker used her stunning quilt to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college www.themarginalian.org/2018/12/06/e...

Mood: open.spotify.com/track/70fCmi...

1/5 We join the international arts community in mourning the passing of Slinger Francisco, The Mighty Sparrow, legendary calypsonian, musician, and beloved mentor. .../2 Photo: David Gonzalez, The New York Times