Word: afro
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...show in the Adams House Art Space, was some sort of combination of “Afro” and “abstraction.” But, did abstract art dominates the show? Did the show attempt to draw a connection between “Afro-ness” and “Abstraction?” Despite the show’s title, the answer to both questions was a clear...
...abstraction was not the theme that tied together the show’s diverse elements, were the works on display somehow connected by their “Afro-ness”? To be certain, the featured artists are all members of the black community, but their subject matter and style could be considered more than exclusively “Afro.” Some of the works allowed that possibility, but not all of them. So why force the connection...
Earlier this month, Smith read alongside novelist Caryl Phillips in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard’s Black Writers Reading series in the Barker Center...
...She’s very cool,” said Uzma Hasan, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. “She doesn’t just represent the Afro-American culture, but actual issues as well. She’s up there as a woman, and it’s nice to see she’s not all about her [entertainment] career...
...DIED. MONGO SANTAMARIA, 80, Cuban-born percussionist who fused American jazz, funk and R. and B. with Afro-Cuban sounds in such standards as Afro Blue, made famous by John Coltrane, and a popular 1963 rendition of Herbie Hancock's Watermelon Man; following a stroke; in Miami. A veteran of the Tito Puente Orchestra, Santamaria recorded albums ranging from salsa and contemporary soul to congo-driven percussion and chanting...