Blog: Speak to Mekhet
Mekhet:
"After in the sense of before, alongside, or preceding..."
When you know that you know that you know, one moves in the world differently.
Read MoreThis music is an expression of spirituality.
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The lives of the indigenous and the forced movement of Africans made these societies what they were.
Read MoreThe world is our kin. And music is the family reunion.
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The lines have to be worried again.
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Music—composition and improvisation—is both the instantiation and narration of memory, and the feeling of and commentary on the meaning of the now.
Read MoreOne has to be able to see that, to play that, to imagine that. And that’s what I appreciated about Hargrove. He did that all in a solo.
Read MoreThis was a world that was to be renewed by the fresh influx of Black freedom dreams. A world without exploitation, without brutality, and without imprisonment.
Read MoreShe forces us to be still. And in our stillness we briefly remember what it feels like to be free
Read MoreAnd if you didn’t catch it with the strings, the other components brought you there. Composition as juxtaposition. Sound as radical expectation, unfulfilled but realized in other ways.
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hat this something is woefully under-analyzed within the disciplines that center the study of politics, wherein we conceive of how to be free
Read MoreWake work is life work. We are working on life, and living. And to live is to have lived. To have existed. To have character. To have iwa.
Read MoreIf we are to continue what those ancestors stood for and enacted, the question must always be for what and whom do we live; to be total and ontologically so
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