This month’s Groovalizacion dance takes us into the heart of mother Africa. Voices beating the skin of the drum, calling it jazz, hip hop and afrobeat rhythms, poets calling from the heart of the heart … Poets, hip hop artists and musicians from South Africa, Cape Town, Senegal, Burundi, Cameroon, Uganda, Nigeria, The Congo, via Canada, the US and the UK…
“I get most of my wisdom from woman. I practice it on my brothers.” In the track Us, Aja Monet roll-calls her women as the track cites James Brown’s It’s a Man’s World … “my litany for survival”. The track sets up an album that quietly but firmly secures Aja’s place in my own roll-call of inspirational women.
Check out Going Down Swinging’s new podcast, part of the organically growing artistic literary audio visual thoughtful cornucopia that is the brand, spankin! new Blue Corner GDS blog site. This first podcast features live recordings of Brooklyn slam poet Jive Poetic and Sydney short story writer Zoe Norton Lodge,…
