MJJG: pg 99

[Mark Kohut]

Raphael,

Been meaning to say Thanks for stating you were glad I started this Mumbo
Jumbo read.
I regret mightily I did not, could not really participate. Too much else
going on in my lucky life.

Thanks,

Mark

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 2:39 AM Raphael Saltwood <PlainMrBotanyB at outlook.com>
wrote:

> “Another man, a South African trumpeter “Hugh,” is in LA, transmitting
> Black American sounds on home. He realizes that the essential
> Pan-Africanism is artists relating across continents their craft, drumbeats
> from the aeons, sounds that are still with us.”
>
> A) this is in the context of listing the wide variety of things being
> reclaimed by the Mu’tafikah, tangentially - it’s like one of those “which
> of these things do not belong with the others” - perhaps stating a credo
> Reed (imho) values above the glorified theft that the Mu’tafikah are
> practicing and above political movements: “artists relating...their craft”
>
> B) A strong cognate from the time-of-writing vs the ostensible
> time-of-action: South African trumpeter Hugh Masakela!
>
> C) maybe as he was writing this passage, a Hugh Masakela song came on the
> radio?
>
> D) is “transmitting Black American sounds on home” a typo, should it be
> “from home?”
>
> Or it could be a verbal grace note, like “bring it on home:”
> “transmit it on home.”
>
> Hugh Masakela played a lot of sounds but this one was a big hit back in
> the diz-ay:
>
> https://youtu.be/qxXZF60EPdM
>
>
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