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Two For Mardi Gras

Feb 21 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Music
missing image Zulu Parade 2010 King Jimmie L Felder; Eliot Kamenitz, Times Picayune
Here’s two videos with a bit of Mardi Gras spirit. First, from the Alan Lomax Archive Channel , comes this footage shot by Alan Lomax and his crew in 1982: “Big Chief Jake Millon and the [continue reading]

Rural Poetry Series: C.D. Wright

Feb 8 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
I’m country but sophisticated. I’m particular and concrete, but I’m
probing another plane. . . . There are many times when I want to hammer
the head. Other times I want to sleep on the hammer.
     – C. D. Wright C.D. Wright was born [continue reading]

Saturday Song: R.L. Burnside At The Juke Joint

Feb 4 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Music
missing image Here’s legendary Mississippi bluesman R.L. Burnside performing “Dust My Broom” at Junior Kimbrough’s Juke Joint. We found this footage, from the early 1990’s, via the excellent Deep Blues site:

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Open Invitation To A [continue reading]

M12 Collective: Ornitarium

Feb 1 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image Ornitarium photograph by Richard Saxton
Next week sees the opening of Spaced – Art Out Of Place , the International Biennial of Socially Engaged Art. Members of the M12
collective will join the exhibition and its related symposium to speak
about the [continue reading]

Update: The Black Hills Are Not For Sale

Jan 25 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image Mural Installation on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles; Honor The Treaties Facebook Page
Last year we discussed Honor The Treaties, a promising collaboration between photographer Aaron Huey , the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and a host of urban and indigenous street artists.  [continue reading]

Almanac For Moderns: Rejoicing In The Noon Mercy

Jan 23 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image [More information on our Almanac For Moderns project and the work of Donald Culross Peattie can be found here .] January Twenty-First I wonder how much of fatality has come to the birds in the past week that I have been house-bound, while storm after storm [continue reading]

A Jetsonorama Panorama

Jan 20 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image
Many thanks to Gary O’Brien for contacting us and sharing this interactive panorama from Jetsonorama’s wheat paste installation in Cameron, Arizona.
What’s striking about this technology is that it not only gives depth and dimension to Jetsonorama’s work, but it reveals how these installations stand as monuments in a [continue reading]

New Multitudes: Singing Woody Guthrie’s Lost Lyrics

Jan 12 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings, Music
missing image The cover art for New Multitudes ; Rounder Records
As we’ve mentioned previously , 2012 marks the centennial of Woody Gutrie’s birth. We’ve just learned more about one of the birthday year’s most anticipated releases: New Multitiudes , an effort that pairs unpublished lyrics from The Woody [continue reading]

The People Speak: New Work From Jetsonorama

Jan 11 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image Wheat paste of CJ at the Tuba City, AZ, rodeo grounds on fair day; Jetsonorama

Where else would you find a black guy applying wallpaper to the
outside of an outhouse at 7 in the morning at a rodeo on an indian
reservation?  [continue reading]

What’s The Matter With Iowa? [Part 1]

Jan 9 2012
Published by under Art, Poetry and Musings
missing image Stephen Bloom in the classroom; Reynolds School of Journalism , University of Nevada Reno
I’m sorry; this is the way I do it. This is called satire. This is called parody.      – Stephen Bloom, interviewed on NBC’s Rock Center Many
readers may [continue reading]

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