Comments on: A Taste for the Modern

By: erin

erin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:19:28 +0000

just as an aside…K’naan’s from Toronto. Gotta give the canucks a little shine…he’s been amazing for quite some time now.

By: wayneandwax.com » The Work of Oprah in the Age of Disturbingly Faithful Hypercompetent Reproductions

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:16:57 +0000

[...] agree with Sharon and Boima, searching for authenticity is a good way to miss the forest for the trees. In other words, [...]

By: Audio Poverty » HipLife Hooray!

Audio Poverty » HipLife Hooray! — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:30:30 +0000

[...] Boima in this great great [...]

By: boima

boima — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:48:55 +0000

Hey ya’ll thanks for the feedback. Raquel I downloaded that pdf as well, so I got some reading to do!

I think there’s some style code embedded on this WordPress theme that makes smiley faces. Don’t know how to shut that off.

And Uchenna, I’m a big fan of your blog! Thanks for droppin’ by! It’s great to have your voice out there representing for West Africans!

By: Uchenna

Uchenna — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:04:56 +0000

Tradition is the people who are around you, not generally something put in a museum, or captured, like so often happens in the ‘West.’

Man… I can’t even express how on the mark you are with this statement…

By: Raquel Z. Rivera

Raquel Z. Rivera — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:18:55 +0000

2008 (last year) was the date I meant to write. where did that smiley face come from?

By: Raquel Z. Rivera

Raquel Z. Rivera — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:17:06 +0000

I’m very inspired by your post, Boima, and the comments (especially your: “Inheritance is not the past necessarily, it is the the things around me as well. “). I don’t have anything groundbreaking to contribute right now, except to say that Timothy Brennan’s Secular Devotion: Afro-Latin Music and Imperial Jazz (2008) touches on some of these same issues. The first chapter is called “World Music Does Not Exist”.

By: w&w

w&w — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:49:25 +0000

Oh, and did I mention that “Sierra Leonean repatriates” play a role in the Waterman article? Thought you’d appreciate…

By: wayneandwax.com » Traditionally Modern

wayneandwax.com » Traditionally Modern — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:10:58 +0000

[...] is bugging me to follow thru on my promises to make pdfs the new mp3s, and b/c Chief Boima put up a provocative post that inspired me to upload a couple of my favorite ethnomusicological articles about African music, [...]

By: boima

boima — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:18:59 +0000

Thanks for the pdf’s Wayne! I’m on those!

And Birdseed I get what you mean. Especially in reference to myself. A lot of my interest in culture comes from the fact that I’ve lost a lot of it, compared to my brothers or cousins grew up in Africa as children. I’m the one that has the most interest, who has visited as an adult, and who actively pursues the ‘culture.’

But what many of my elders have expressed to me, elder’s being the bearers of tradition, which in a way has become sort of empowering for myself, (and as pertains to the post) it’s not the song that you sing that you matters, it’s just that you sing.