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Cultural Arts Immersion in the Era of Stop and Frisk

This past weekend I spent time with the Boys and Girls Club of the Greater Washington DC’s TAP (Teen Arts Performance Camp).  The two-week, overnight program, which is in its fifth year, provided over forty children and teens the opportunity to get exposure to visual arts, dance, music and drama through...

By Dr. Guthrie /  July 15, 2012
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The Power of Suggestion/The Pleasure of Groove: Robert Glasper’s Post-Genre Black Radio Project, Part 3

Part 3–toward inspiration, Salamishah Tillet and Mark Anthony Neal In my previous two posts on the Robert Glasper CD Black Radio (Blue Note) I laid out some broad ways to think about sound organization in the project, the notion of branding in today’s music as well as some ideas about how we can begin...

By Dr. Guthrie /  March 11, 2012
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The Power of Suggestion/The Pleasure of Groove: Robert Glasper’s Post-Genre Black Radio Project, Part 1

“Changing the game,” exclaimed the press photographer to one of the fans at Robert Glasper’s recent standing-room-only appearance at World Café Live, Philadelphia.   “Yeah, no doubt,” the middle-aged man shot back in agreement.  The room was filled with an interracial, inter-generational...

By Dr. Guthrie /  March 4, 2012
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Take Six Takes House: Sounding History, Channeling the Ancestors

Black Music Month Day #25–In Memory of Michael Jackson I was thinking about writing something new about Michael Jackson for Day #25 of my black music month series.  It seemed only appropriate to commit some new words to paper to mark the occasion of him being gone for two years.  But during the virtuoso...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 25, 2011
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You Say You Want a Revolution? The Beatles, Stevie Wonder and Musical Genius as Moral Authority

Black Music Month Day #13 Now that Dirk and the Boys from Texas have secured their franchise’s first championship last night, it might be fun to go back to the vault and think about a classic moment in which the NBA and music history intersected provocatively. Before game three of the 2005 NBA Finals,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  June 13, 2011
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Wale, Creativity, and the Industry Game

By Genise “As much as I wanted to be minuscule the fact is, they’d only be happy with a minstrel actor, Sorry Mr. Charlie won’t chap dance, and f*ck the radio for tellin’ me to snap jam” -Wale, “Mama Told Me” (Attention: Deficit, 2009) Rap, in my view, no longer incorporates...

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 10, 2011
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Caveat Emptor! (Or Let the Buyer Beware): A Blog about Blogs and Black Mass Media

I can’t fully explain the power of Chuck D’s words from more than twenty years ago, that “Rap music is CNN for black America,” exerted on me.  I became aware of them long after the moment in which they were initially uttered, and they have now resurfaced in my mind long after I first read […]

By Dr. Guthrie /  April 26, 2010
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From the Streets of London: Identity in the Music of Dizzee Rascal

‘And all I care about is sex and violence A heavy bass line is my kind of silence Everybody says that I’ve gotta get a grip But I let sanity give me the slip Some people think I’m bonkers But I just think I’m free Man I’m just living my life There’s nothing crazy about...

By Dr. Guthrie /  December 10, 2009
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Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs There’s Improvisation In Music, But Can You Hear It?

Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – Maps (Original Version) Musical improvisation obviously cannot be limited to one particular genre of music; anyone from rappers such as Snoop Dogg to country musicians such as Garth Brooks has the ability to modify the structural components of their work as they see fit. However,...

By Dr. Guthrie /  November 10, 2009
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The Blueprint – Jay-Z and His Impact on Hip-Hop Music

  Jay-Z is the man who holds “the blueprint” for the successful hip-hop artist.  He started out his career as a young rapper with gangster appeal in the mid-90’s and gradually transformed into a respected artist by all (even political figures) with a multi-million dollar business. Fans and the media...

By Dr. Guthrie /  October 27, 2009
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