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Hace 4 días · Jazz became much more prominent in black letters after World War II, when the music became much more self-consciously an “art” music designed for listening rather than for dancing.
Hace 2 días · In his extended 1920 resolution “Declaration of Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World,” Garvey explicitly espouses self-determination and demands that people of African descent should have “complete control of [their] social institutions without interference by any alien race or races” and that “Negro History should be taught to school-aged children.” 24 Particularly with his ...
Hace 4 días · “My Way” is a song synonymous with Frank Sinatra, forever etched in the minds of listeners as a signature tune of the legendary crooner. However, the song’s origins lie outside the US and Sinatra’s own repertoire.
Hace 5 días · Given the continent’s richly diverse, yet largely heteropatriarchal, sociocultural formations, I argue that ideas about empowered, agentic and self-determining (black) African women are–based on the limited purview offered through the multimodal discourses of a small corpus of Afrobeats music videos –no more than sociocultural façades as opposed...
Hace 1 día · Terminology. The term "Zionism" is derived from the word Zion (Hebrew: ציון, romanized: Tzi-yon), a hill in Jerusalem, widely symbolizing the Land of Israel. Throughout eastern Europe in the late 19th century, numerous grassroots groups promoted the national resettlement of the Jews in their homeland, as well as the revitalization and cultivation of the Hebrew language.
Hace 1 día · The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentiethcentury operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of t...
Hace 4 días · Today’s psychedelic and lo-fi music scene is fostered by a dedicated community of listeners and the desire... Read More. John Flansburgh – They Might Be Giants. Podcasts.
