musical up/post date for noah 4: a break in the flow: a very few odd moments that i love: unsequential and jarring even… but still in the territory of coltraine and stephon alexander and einstein

1922–32

updated brilliantly, by christian bok…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_B%C3%B6k

Georges Aperghis

and well, to cut to a very different/similar register

Supaman, born Christian Parrish Takes the Gun, is an Apsáalooke Native American from the Crow Nation Reservation near Billings, Montana. In 2014, he was Artist of the Week on MTV, and he’s unique. He rhymes about some of the same issues better-known African-American rappers do, but there is an added element of reservation life. His parents were alcoholics, and he was a foster child until he went to live with his grandfather. Reservation life provided too much idle time and too much poverty, and no good came of it. He was involved with crime and drugs. Takes the Gun says hip-hop – in its more negative aspects – influenced him to play the part of a gangster.

But in his early 20s, Takes the Gun realized this was not the way he wanted to live – and concluded that his music sent the wrong message to his fellow Native young people. So he changed course. After a record deal with a Seattle label saw him leaving his wife and child behind and living a rapper’s lifestyle, Supaman found religion and returned home to Montana, embracing his ancestral traditions and cultural mores. Today, he’s an educator and performer, and one of the best-known Native hip-hop acts.

http://www.salon.com/2016/10/08/fighting-the-power-and-speaking-for-the-earth-the-explosion-of-native-american-hip-hop/

under the cover of pearodox-provocateur, i must add these, as counter examples of what’s NOT politically effective, as supaman’s work above is. in line with Zappa’s critique of ID politics.

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musical up/post date for noah 4: a break in the flow: a very few odd moments that i love: unsequential and jarring even… but still in the territory of coltraine and stephon alexander and einstein

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