StrangeDubs Home

Jun 21, 2007 5:10pm 1 review music, reggae-dub
http://www.homestead.com/strangedub/dub2.html

dubbin is a must

DJ SPOOKY: Venice Biennale 2007

Jun 7, 2007 11:42am 5 reviews dj, dj-spooky-africa
http://www.djspooky.com/articles/venice_2007.html

Ghost World: A Story in Sound
by Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid

Burning the Midnight Oil 3 by *james119 on deviantART

Jun 5, 2007 9:11pm 1 review arts, oil
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/50454585?qo=33&q=by%3Ajames119&qh=sort%3A...

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Dub Echoes

Jun 4, 2007 7:10pm 1 review music, reggae-dub-documentary
http://www.dubechoes.com/

dub documentary

SommaProject -

Jun 4, 2007 11:45am 1 review music
http://www.sommaproject.com/

ernaldo bernodichi's somma project website

LaUnion1910.com - Comunidad de Latinos - Musica - Arte - Videos - Noticias - Eve…

Jun 1, 2007 3:58pm 1 review music
http://launion1910.com/

eric bobo

Picnicface Halifax Based Comedy Troupe

Jun 1, 2007 3:23pm 3 reviews comedy-movies
http://www.picnicface.com/

improv comedy group from canada

Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz ... - Google Book Search

May 27, 2007 7:57pm 1 review books
http://books.google.com/books?id=tjfVPNpGCx0C&pg=PA283&lpg=PA283&dq=the%20rea...

At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America dispatched its finest jazz musicians to the far corners of the earth, from Iraq to India, from the Congo to the Soviet Union, in order to win the hearts and minds of the Third World and to counter perceptions of American racism. Penny Von Eschen escorts us across the globe, backstage and onstage, as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and other jazz luminaries spread their music and their ideas further than the State Department anticipated. Both in concert and after hours, through political statements and romantic liaisons, these musicians broke through the government's official narrative and gave their audiences an unprecedented vision of the black American experience. In the process, new collaborations developed between Americans and the formerly colonized peoples of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East--collaborations that fostered greater racial pride and solidarity. Though intended as a color-blind promotion of democracy, this unique Cold War strategy unintentionally demonstrated the essential role of African Americans in U.S. national culture. Through the tales of these tours, Von Eschen captures the fascinating interplay between the efforts of the State Department and the progressive agendas of the artists themselves, as all struggled to redefine a more inclusive and integrated American nation on the world stage.

New Page 2

May 27, 2007 7:48pm 1 review music
http://www.therealambassadors.com/

In 1960, Dave and Iola Brubeck wrote a show they hoped would change the world. They were way ahead of their time. The world wasn't ready. This site is about the show.

The Real Ambassadors is a musical commentary on race relations in America as poignant today as it was 45 years ago when they wrote it expressly for Louis Armstrong.

"Despite an initial burst of critical acclaim in 1962, Dave and Iola Brubeck's satirical musical, "The Real Ambassadors," has pretty much lain moldering in its premature grave, virtually...forgotten.

There didn't seem to be much hope for the resurrection of the Brubecks' witty musical that celebrates the legacy of Louis Armstrong and savages the toxicity of racial discrimination.

That is until Dianne Mower, a noted Hartford-based jazz vocalist... began her one-woman crusade to revive this classic, yet now nearly forgotten piece of Americana."

Quote from Ambassador for a Musical By OWEN McNALLY,
Special to The Courant

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Apr 5, 2007 10:11pm 1 review music, turntable-session-dj
http://www.amuletrecords.com/NEWS/news_pages/illyBeats/TTsessions.htm

turntable sessions page