Joe Willie "Pinetop" Perkins 1917-2011
English Obituary
Biografía en castellano
3.22.2011
3.18.2011
Call For Papers: Afro-Latin@s Now! Strategies for Visibility and Action
Call For Papers: Afro-Latin@s Now! Strategies for Visibility and Action
The afrolatin@ forum invites proposals for “Afro-Latin@s Now: Strategies for Visibility & Action” a conference to be held November 3-5, 2011 in New York City. The three-day international conference will gather scholars, community leaders and artists to advance a dialogue on issues of importance to Black Latin@s in the United States as well as foster positive relations between Latin@s, African Americans and other peoples of color. Recognizing that studies of Afro-Latin@s are multidisciplinary, we seek proposals for papers, panels, performances (music or theater), film, and graphic arts from any branch of Afro-Latin@ studies. The goal of the conference will be to promote dialogue and mutual understanding amongst and between Afro-Latin@s, the broader Latin@ and African American populations, and the general public including other peoples of color. We aim to expand and solidify the widening network of educators and activists working on related themes, and to begin defining the key educational and policy issues that bear on the recognition and empowerment of this largely overlooked and underserved population. The afrolatin@ forum, as an institution founded in New York City, is proud to partner with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Center for the Humanities of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, El Museo del Barrio, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research in presenting this conference. The afrolatin@ forum works to build and strengthen research and activist networks among Latin@s of African descent in the United States. Our focus is on Black Latin@s in the United States and their relationships with other communities of color. This emphasis is guided by a transnational perspective that recognizes the centrality of race in understanding today's global reality and the struggle for social justice.
Papers and submission
Individual abstracts should be 250 words or less. Abstracts should be submitted by Monday, May 16, 2011. Please include a five-line biography, and your institutional/organizational affiliation and contact information. Direct all submissions to Guesnerth Josúe Perea at gjperea@ http://www.facebook.com/l/6928ax3uR8Xm6KPhCzMiYYKFbiA/gmail.com or info@ http://www.facebook.com/l/6928aY69tumdi7ez-sayor0RKJA/afrolatinoforum.org . You can also visit the forum's conference website: http://www.facebook.com/l/6928afC4oaOmFJ_Aq4CmNCzcV2g/www.afrolatinoforum.org/call-for-papers.html to submit your paper or presentation proposal. This three-day conference will be held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the CUNY Graduate Center and El Museo del Barrio on November 3-5, 2011, for more information on the conference please visit:http://www.facebook.com/l/6928aMC2NYNy1a1X985t6maX9tA/www.afrolatinoforum.org
Papers and submission
Individual abstracts should be 250 words or less. Abstracts should be submitted by Monday, May 16, 2011. Please include a five-line biography, and your institutional/organizational affiliation and contact information. Direct all submissions to Guesnerth Josúe Perea at gjperea@ http://www.facebook.com/l/
3.15.2011
Música colombiana en la radio gringa/Colombian music on NPR
The NPR program alt.latino was in Colombia recently along with the PBS Music Voyager folks, and made three radio episodes:
El programa radial alt.latino estuvo en Colombia recientemente con los del programa de televisión Music Voyager y sacaron 3 programas sobre la música contemporánea colombiana:
Obviamente, en inglés/In English, of course...
- 1st episode/1er programa: Herencia de Timbiquí, La Mojarra Eléctrica & Andrea Echeverri
- 2do programa/2nd episode: La Mojarra Eléctrica, Bomba Estéreo, Aterciopelados, Herencia de Timbiquí, Vilmar Soler (vallenatero del programa Canta Conmigo, programa para desmobilizados/vallenato singer for a program for demobilized paramilitaries and guerrillas), Totó la Momposina
- #3: Systema Solar, Iván Benavides (Interview/Entrevista), ChocQuibTown, Juanes (Entrevista/Interview), Puerto Candelaria, Joe Arroyo
Video here/aquí
3.11.2011
DOMUS magazine's "sounds of cities" mixtapes
From DOMUS magazine
So far they have:
Mexico City (Daniel Hernández)
Harlem (DJ Rupture with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts)
Buenos Aires (Leandro Erlich w/ n-ron)
Sonidos de ciudades: México DF, Harlem y Buenos Aires
So far they have:
Mexico City (Daniel Hernández)
Harlem (DJ Rupture with Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts)
Buenos Aires (Leandro Erlich w/ n-ron)
Sonidos de ciudades: México DF, Harlem y Buenos Aires
3.05.2011
La venganza del picó...
En una imprevista guerra sonora entre Carlos Vives y un equipo de sonido no nombrado en pleno Carnaval de Barranquilla, la fusionada nostalgia folklórica de Vives pierde un punto ante la estrepitosa y desmedida exuberancia popular:
De El Tiempo:
Carlos Vives tuvo que terminar antes su concierto por ruido callejero
Por: BARRANQUILLA | 3:34 a.m. |
El alto volumen de los equipos de los carros impidió que el artista continuara su show.
Nadie pudo controlar a los dueños de los vehículos parqueados a las afueras del Hotel del Prado; el artista llevaba hora y media de show, pero no pudo continuar debido al ruido callejero.
Todavía con los cables del monitoreo enganchados en el cuerpo, luego de hora y media de show, regresaron al camerino todos y cada uno de los integrantes de La Provincia, incluido el mismo Carlos Vives, quienes por culpa de los ensordecedores ruidos de los equipos de sonido de los vehículos que se parquearon a las afueras del Hotel del Prado, en Barranquilla, no pudieron concluir el concierto de este viernes (Vea acá más noticias relacionadas con el Carnaval de Barranquilla).
El regguetón y los ritmos electrónicos provenientes de la calle zumbaban cada vez que el samario intentaba dirigirse, entre canción y canción, a las cerca de tres mil personas que pagaron la boleta para verlo en la apertura del Carnaval 2011.
A las 10:35 de la noche las notas de la canción 'Sí, sí, sí' prendieron la fiesta así como por más de 11 temas coreados por el público y que contaron con una entrega total del artista.
La paciencia se colmó después de la canción 'Canté', alusiva al Carnaval y a distintas fiestas colombianas. "Hey vamos a decirle al man del picó de afuera que por lo menos se ponga en el mismo tono de nosotros pa' aprovéchalo", dijo el cantante para quejarse de la falta de garantías para seguir presentándose.
Luego de varios minutos, mientras Andrés Castro y Carlos Huertas, de La Provincia, intentaban mantener la atención con improvisadas notas de guitarra, la agrupación se bajó de la tarima sin siquiera poder despedirse de los asistentes que observaban el concierto, incluido el mismo alcalde de Barranquilla, Alejandro Char Chaljub.
"Es algo que nunca nos había pasado en los más de 60 países que hemos recorrido en estos años", dijo el acordeonero Egidio Cuadrado.
Vives, por su parte, aseguró que seguía contento de haber podido estar en el Carnaval, pero vuelve a irse de Barranquilla con un mal sabor de boca como en 2006 cuando le criticaron en Barranquilla luego de su presentación en una carroza en la Batalla de Flores de aquel entonces. Se dijo que los atrasos del desfile corrieron por cuenta de su montaje desmedido.
"Sigo creyendo en Barranquilla, porque al menos pude estar aquí y a pesar de lo sucedido la gente estuvo conmigo. Para mí la ciudad es muy importante", declaró minutos después de abandonar la tarima.
"Faltaba al menos media hora de show", agregó su esposa Claudia Elena Vásquez. A la 1:30 a.m. la cartelera del Hotel del Prado continuó con la agrupación de Los Betos y todavía faltaban Sensación Orquesta, Elvis Crespo, Tito Nieves, Iván Villazón y Jorge Celedón.
Sobre la aglomeración de la gente a las afueras del hotel, a lo que popularmente se le conoce como el 'Carnaval del Pradito', se le había preguntado el pasado el lunes en rueda de prensa al empresario responsable del evento, Ludwing Landazabal, y este respondió que sería controlada por las autoridades porque en 2010 la situación por poco deja una pared desplomada.
Sin embargo, control sobre los que ponen a todo volumen la música de los vehículos y se parquean en sitios públicos fue lo que más faltó.
El público, que pagó cada entrada a 190 mil pesos, se quejó también de que en la boleta se anunció que las orquestas iniciaban a las 6 de la tarde, pero la primera presentación fue la de Carlvos Vives, con varias horas de retardo a lo prometido.
Este, sin duda, pasará a la historia del cantante como uno de los más desastrosos de su carrera incluido el de sus inicios en Santa Marta luego de protagonizar la serie Escalona.
Aquella vez fue telonero de Chayanne y solo hasta las 4 de la madrugada pudo presentarse en el estadio Eduardo Santos con unos tantos en el público. Este viernes, en Barranquilla, ni 'La gota fría', ni 'La tierra del olvido' fueron escuchadas.
BARRANQUILLA
3.03.2011
CFP: Symposium on African American Culture & Philosophy: "Afro-Latin America: Rethinking, Identity, Politics and Culture"
Call for Papers
The 27th Annual Symposium on African American Culture & Philosophy
Afro-Latin America:
Rethinking, Identity, Politics and Culture
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo-Hall, Michigan State University
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kim Butler, Rutgers University
African American Studies and Research Center
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
December 1-3, 2011
In recent decades we have witnessed an outpouring of new research on African-descended
communities throughout Latin America. Black political organizing and grassroots activism have
also exploded in the region, as activists from Colombia to Puerto Rico have sought to increase
the visibility of ongoing questions related to black socioeconomic marginalization. These
endeavors continue to unfold however, within colonial and neoliberal contexts that frequently
interpret Afro-Latin histories and political mobilizations as auxiliary to or subsumed within other
local or national narratives. In particular, black cultural expressions are frequently depoliticized
within the realm of “folklore,” or highly racialized within Latin American film, performance culture,
and national mythology.
Though Latin America has the largest populations of African-descended people outside of
Africa, recent events illuminate the recurring tendency for black histories, cultures and political
expressions to be pushed to the margins of conferences on Latin America, minimizing of the
roles of the multitude of communities of African descent in shaping the contemporary realities
and interactions with nation states. For this reason, there remains an acute need for public
intellectual spaces that privilege Latin American blackness, and rigorously examine the
discourses around it. Thus, the time is certainly propitious to assess the state and direction of
the field of the African Diaspora in Latin America. The symposium responds to this call by
exploring various ways to locate interrogations of Afro-Latin America squarely within the larger
framework of the African Diaspora.
Our focus is designed: (1) to initiate interventionist dialogues about the African presence in Latin
America (2) to generate interaction and discussion around some of the more salient concerns in
the field and (3) to publish selected papers from the proceedings. Through a variety of prisms,
our sessions will promote a reevaluation of African-descended communities vis-à-vis their
agency and objectives past and present. In this manner, we will consider exciting new directions
that African diasporic research is capable of taking when Latin American blackness is placed at
the center.
This conference is framed with the eve of 2012 in mind, a year that marks the bicentennial of
Cuba’s “Aponte Movement” of 1812, and the centennial of Cuba’s “Little War of 1912,” which
followed the organization of the first black political party in the western hemisphere. Albeit one
hundred years apart, both episodes were met with bloody state repressions that became crucial
barometers for the possibilities of racial equity throughout the region. Furthermore, both
anniversaries point to many forms of black resistance throughout the Americas, in colonial and
postcolonial times.
We seek papers and panels from across the disciplines on such sample topics as:
African-descended Communities in Iberia from Medieval to Early Modern Times
The Experiences of Afro-Jamaicans under Spanish Rule
African-descended Women in Colonial and or Post Colonial Latin America
Relations among Native, African, and Asian Communities in Latin America
Religious Interactions among African Theologies, Christianity, and Islam
Relations among Hispanic and non-Hispanic Antilleans at Home and Abroad
Dominicans, Haitians, and Africans in the United States and Spain
Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Communities in Belize, Curaçao, St. Croix, and Trinidad-Tobago
Marronage and other Forms of Militant Resistance
Afro-Latin Americans in the Military
Afro-Latin Americans in Sports Industries
Afro-Latin Americans in Entertainment Industries
Afro-Latin Americans as Authors and Protagonists in Literature
Afro-Cuban Exiles, 1845-2010
Gender, Sexuality and Hip-hop Culture
Blackness and the Spanish American Wars of Independence
Black History, Culture, and Politics in Argentina and the Andes
Black Identity and Spanish Identity in the Central American Republics
Recent Research on Afro-Mexican History and Culture
Racial Belonging and Exclusion in Post-special Cuba
Send paper and panel submissions by May 2, 2011 to:
Venetria K. Patton, Director African American Studies
27th Annual Symposium on Philosophy & Culture
Beering Hall, Room 6182
100 North University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098
Email abstracts to: aasrc@purdue.edu [Include “Abstract” in subject line]
Website: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/african-american/
The 27th Annual Symposium on African American Culture & Philosophy
Afro-Latin America:
Rethinking, Identity, Politics and Culture
Plenary Speaker: Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo-Hall, Michigan State University
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kim Butler, Rutgers University
African American Studies and Research Center
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
December 1-3, 2011
In recent decades we have witnessed an outpouring of new research on African-descended
communities throughout Latin America. Black political organizing and grassroots activism have
also exploded in the region, as activists from Colombia to Puerto Rico have sought to increase
the visibility of ongoing questions related to black socioeconomic marginalization. These
endeavors continue to unfold however, within colonial and neoliberal contexts that frequently
interpret Afro-Latin histories and political mobilizations as auxiliary to or subsumed within other
local or national narratives. In particular, black cultural expressions are frequently depoliticized
within the realm of “folklore,” or highly racialized within Latin American film, performance culture,
and national mythology.
Though Latin America has the largest populations of African-descended people outside of
Africa, recent events illuminate the recurring tendency for black histories, cultures and political
expressions to be pushed to the margins of conferences on Latin America, minimizing of the
roles of the multitude of communities of African descent in shaping the contemporary realities
and interactions with nation states. For this reason, there remains an acute need for public
intellectual spaces that privilege Latin American blackness, and rigorously examine the
discourses around it. Thus, the time is certainly propitious to assess the state and direction of
the field of the African Diaspora in Latin America. The symposium responds to this call by
exploring various ways to locate interrogations of Afro-Latin America squarely within the larger
framework of the African Diaspora.
Our focus is designed: (1) to initiate interventionist dialogues about the African presence in Latin
America (2) to generate interaction and discussion around some of the more salient concerns in
the field and (3) to publish selected papers from the proceedings. Through a variety of prisms,
our sessions will promote a reevaluation of African-descended communities vis-à-vis their
agency and objectives past and present. In this manner, we will consider exciting new directions
that African diasporic research is capable of taking when Latin American blackness is placed at
the center.
This conference is framed with the eve of 2012 in mind, a year that marks the bicentennial of
Cuba’s “Aponte Movement” of 1812, and the centennial of Cuba’s “Little War of 1912,” which
followed the organization of the first black political party in the western hemisphere. Albeit one
hundred years apart, both episodes were met with bloody state repressions that became crucial
barometers for the possibilities of racial equity throughout the region. Furthermore, both
anniversaries point to many forms of black resistance throughout the Americas, in colonial and
postcolonial times.
We seek papers and panels from across the disciplines on such sample topics as:
African-descended Communities in Iberia from Medieval to Early Modern Times
The Experiences of Afro-Jamaicans under Spanish Rule
African-descended Women in Colonial and or Post Colonial Latin America
Relations among Native, African, and Asian Communities in Latin America
Religious Interactions among African Theologies, Christianity, and Islam
Relations among Hispanic and non-Hispanic Antilleans at Home and Abroad
Dominicans, Haitians, and Africans in the United States and Spain
Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Communities in Belize, Curaçao, St. Croix, and Trinidad-Tobago
Marronage and other Forms of Militant Resistance
Afro-Latin Americans in the Military
Afro-Latin Americans in Sports Industries
Afro-Latin Americans in Entertainment Industries
Afro-Latin Americans as Authors and Protagonists in Literature
Afro-Cuban Exiles, 1845-2010
Gender, Sexuality and Hip-hop Culture
Blackness and the Spanish American Wars of Independence
Black History, Culture, and Politics in Argentina and the Andes
Black Identity and Spanish Identity in the Central American Republics
Recent Research on Afro-Mexican History and Culture
Racial Belonging and Exclusion in Post-special Cuba
Send paper and panel submissions by May 2, 2011 to:
Venetria K. Patton, Director African American Studies
27th Annual Symposium on Philosophy & Culture
Beering Hall, Room 6182
100 North University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098
Email abstracts to: aasrc@purdue.edu [Include “Abstract” in subject line]
Website: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/african-american/
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