mudd up! » appalachia http://www.negrophonic.com dirt, sound, lit Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:30:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 MUEZZINS AND MCS http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/muezzins-and-mcs/ http://www.negrophonic.com/2008/muezzins-and-mcs/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:50:00 +0000 jace http://www.negrophonic.com/?p=636 w&w: “jace offers less a review than an extended essay on the sounds, significations, & marketing of a west african / “islamic” hip-hop comp”:

Beat Happening, an essay of mine published in U.A.E. daily The National.

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[Sister Fa, courtesy Piranha Records]

I played two songs from Many Lessons on the Ramadan/Eit radio show, streamable, makes a nice soundtrack for this article. also available in podcast form.

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Timeblind (Mr rastObama) blogs the collapse, with the up-close details of someone who plays (played?) the market a bit. also here:

“It hasn’t bled out into the real economy yet, but this stuff is more significant than 9/11 in what its going to do to the real world economy and to the American psyche. . . So anyway I have many positive things to say about the way that social and economic structures can be rebooted, and I’m really excited to see how the western ingenuity adapts and moves forward. I think this is all a positive development, despite what it just did to your parents’ life savings.”

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