Anyone who knows me knows I’ve been preachin’ the relevance of regional dance music for years. From D.C. Go Go to Baltimore Club, Detroit Techno to Miami Bass each form had it’s genesis in the city’s urban core and gradually spread to a wider audience. These styles have at least some core elements [...]
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Chitown Footworkin’: First the Southside, then Samsung, then the world!
Posted in Art, Dance, Marketing, Media, tagged Chicago, Dance, Jit, Juke, Krump, Samsung, Street Dance, Turf Dance on October 31, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Eulipia Performance Salon 1st Anniversary Finale Gala
Posted in Art, Books, Media, Promotions, San Francisco, tagged Art, Jazz, Music, Performance, Poetry, Puppets on October 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Eulipia Performance Salon 1st Anniversary Finale Gala
October 2nd, 8PM (sharp)
Walter Kitundu
Please join us for this night of celebration and reflection.
Since October 2006, Eulipa/Knot Frum Hear has featured some of the Bay’s innovators in the worlds of word and music and continues to explore alternative spaces through performance, sound, and vision.
NetRadio: The Day the Music Died, Maybe
Posted in Activism, Media, Music, News, Technology on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Day the Music Died, Maybe
By Kwan Booth
July 15 could mark the end of the web as we hear it. That is the day new royalty rates take effect for Internet radio stations based in the United States. Opponents say the new fees, which will increase the yearly amount paid by Internet broadcasters [...]
Remembering Journalist Chauncey Bailey
Posted in Features, Media, tagged "Chauncey Bailey" on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is Bailey…
Remembering Chauncey Bailey, newspaper editor, mentor and friend.
By Kwan Booth (August 3, 2007-Novometro.com)
Deadline nights in the newspaper business are sacred. Nothing compares to that last minute rush of writing, editing and designing, trying to squeeze in that last crucial detail before going to press. When I heard that Chauncey Bailey, editor [...]
Kenya’s Hip Hop Colony
Posted in Film, Interviews, Media, Music, tagged , "hip hop colony" "Michael Wanguhu", "Russell Kenya" on September 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Hip Hop Colony: The African Hip Hop Explosion
By Kwan Booth (October 06, 2005-Whatchusay.com)
Hip Hop Colony, the new film by Director Michael Wanguhu and Russell Kenya, explores the emergence of Kenyan Hip Hop culture and it’s struggles to gain legitimacy. The film screened recently at the Oakland International Film Festival and I talked to the [...]
Turn Off Channel Zero
Posted in Activism, Film, Media, Reviews on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Turn Off Channel Zero
By Kwan Booth ( April 12, 2007-Whatchusay.com)
It’s no secret that mainstream media’s coverage of African Americans is severely one- sided. From the nightly news to “reality shows” like “Cops” and “Flavor of Love” to almost every music video on BET, MTV and [...]
