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A look at black music's favorite season (with images, playlist fixed)
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Black Swans
On Nina Simone's elegant belligerence
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Monk's Daughter Boo Boo Singing
I’m in a Monk mood, meticulously. Both his son and daughter became musicians, his son even served as the drummer in his father’s band during his final…
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Two Men Down
Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker in church after-hours
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Parable of the Rapper's Daughter
The disturbing flippancy of North West's impersonations of Ye
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Amiri Reading "Dope"
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It Must Be the Devil
On Amiri Baraka's "Dope" and the poetics of the underdog who gets close to God
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My Message and My Minstrels
On my taboo fantasy alter-egos in music
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Black Music and Black Muses
Black Music and Black Muses
Music writing that is not restricted by the demands, wishes, and timelines of the music industry. Writing, not advertising. Love, not a battle of the brands.
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