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Mizik Rasin: Rhythm and Roots of Haiti (Miami Herald)

Lolo Beaubrun performing with Boukman Eksperyans  For all the tough-guy posturing of the gangsta rappers, the language of rebellion in hip-hop, the coolly sour attitude of alternative rock, North American pop music is, more often than not, just another product vying for shelf space, not much more subversive than soap. The pop music of Haiti …

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The Heart of The Blues. The Sound of the Mississippi Delta Speaks to Music Lovers Everywhere

Day laborers, picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Wikimedia This is the heart of the Delta, a brooding, magnificent plain in northwest Mississippi that runs south to Vicksburg, east to Mississippi’s central mountain range, and spills over into Arkansas to the west and Tennessee to the north. The blues were …

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