African-American Music Appreciation Month

[Mark Kohut]

“I am America,” he once declared. “I am the part you won’t recognize. But
get used to me – black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion,
not yours; my goals, my own. Get used to me.”

        --  Muhammad Ali


On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 3:54 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de
> wrote:

>
> I appreciate it all the time!
>
> "He blew a hand-carved ivory alto saxophone with a 4 1/2 reed and the
> sound was like nothing any of them had heard before." (V, p. 59)
>
> "Tryin to do Tupac and Biggie thangs
> With red velvet Chairman Mao piggy banks." (BE, p. 282)
>
> Max Roach - Effi:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uscgsK7dRsk
>
> Nina Simone - Sign 'O' The Times:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anu32La7Adw
>
> James Brown - Sunny (Live in Paris):
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNFb7vfANVE
>
> Flying Lotus - Do the Astral Plane:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8E5KnNPt4g
>
> Biggie Smalls (feat. 112) - Sky's The Limit:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDac85FabTk
>
>
> "African-American music helps us imagine a better world"
>
>
> http://pitchfork.com/news/65894-president-obama-declares-june-2016-african-american-music-appreciation-month/
>
>
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