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...folk art,” the range of musicians and art presented at the club was far too eclectic to be pigeonholed. The House played host to a wide range of international musicians from Africa and the Caribbean, including luminaries such as Thomas Mapfumo of Zimbabwe and the Boukman Eksperyans. The House of Blues also featured local heroes such as Pete Francis, formerly of the band Dispatch...
...House of Blues offers conclusive evidence that anyone who says they are bored of Harvard Square, let alone Cambridge or Boston, is simply not paying attention. A regular port of call for numerous off-the-beaten-track international bands, this past Saturday night the HOB hosted Boukman Eksperyans, a Haitian band whose music is a stew of global influences anchored in the traditions of “vodou” spirituality...
...direct echo of the challenge to non-Western cultures everywhere to become global without being globalized, to step on the world playing field without being ground into it. In today's global music, musical boundary hopping is often integral to a political message, as when Haiti's Boukman Eksperyans sets a Creole antiwar chant to the tune of Kyu Sakamoto's 1963 single Sukiyaki, an American chart topper by way of Japan. (For Bookman, even singing in Creole--which has periodically been outlawed in Haiti--is a political act.) Protest singers in Africa and the Caribbean have long preached...
Without law and order, says Theodore Beaubrun Jr., leader of the voodoo rock band Boukman Eksperyans, "everyone makes their own justice." Mobs play judge and jury, hacking people to death for crimes real or imagined. The omnipresent "popular organizations," self-proclaimed local leaders who act as watchdog, pressure group and enforcer of political correctness, command the masses and own the real power. "The popular organizations control this city," says Jean Robert Lalannes, a Cap Haitien radio-station director threatened with death after he criticized Aristide. "The vacuum of state authority is complete...
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