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Obama

October 28, 2008 by Boima Tucker

We all know that this election is a big moment in the history of the United States, but I can’t help myself from thinking about my feelings of desperation around this same time in 2004. I was enthusiastically ready for Kerry to defeat Bush, but the feeling in the air was so different. There were more protests and more uncertainty. I knew I wanted some kind of real change but I couldn’t really visualize what that was or how that […]

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Categories: Music, Tha Homies, Video • Tags: america, cracker one, obama, politics, racism

Internal Border War

October 22, 2008 by Boima Tucker

Check out the second half of this show, an interview with Guillermo Gomez Pena, an artist, currently based in San Francisco. He is sort of a hero for some friends of mine who are artists out here, and I love his idea of the fight across borders between worlds and within ourselves. My favorite part is when discussing hipsters versus locals, he says that the hipsters aren’t always that hip and the locals aren’t always that local. Interview with Guillermo […]

Categories: Performance Art, Thought • Tags: guillermo gomez pena, hipsters, mission, pocho, san francisco, street art

The Highlife: Saturday October 18th

October 10, 2008 by Boima Tucker

Highlife Music was one of the first African musics to take influences from American Sounds. In the 1920′s as urban areas in West Africa grew, Jazz, and Big Band arrangements fused with local Palm Wine and acoustic musics, and also mixed with Calypso, Cuban Son, and other musics from overseas. It was fun, uplifting music in the spirit of good times. These such fusions continue on through to today, and it is in that spirit of mixing and good times, […]

Categories: Gigs • Tags: akwaaba, Anu Bar, oro 11, shawn dub, The Highlife, Third Space

What Move You?

October 10, 2008 by Boima Tucker

For those who didn’t catch it at Ghettobassquake: Kuduromatic put up a song with rhythms, melodies, and vocal stylings that sound to me like Angolans being influenced by West African Hiplife, Coupe Decale or Zouglou. Perhaps it’s a nod to Congolese Soukous, the name Langa Langa recalling my favorite Soukous group Zaiko Langa Langa. DJ Papi Chulo and Alidjuma-Langa Langa Maybe I’m wrong about that, and this is purely Angolan, but I picture in my head someone in Angola listening […]

Categories: Music • Tags: Coupe Decale, download, hiplife, Kuduro

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Obama

Internal Border War

The Highlife: Saturday October 18th

What Move You?

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