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With three turntables and a mixer, /rupture communicates through layered grooves. An ideal selector who skirts boundaries rather than being confined within them, he builds bridges between musical cultures as only a good DJ can, articulating forgotten connections while suggesting unforeseen ones. Beats from Kingston to Brooklyn engage with seminal musique concrète; rap, ragga and spoken word are given equal voice. As dance music becomes increasingly sanitized, conveniently packaged and endlessly regurgitated for the consumer, DJ /rupture provides a slap in the face, reminding us why this music was important in the first place...
...Still, the dominant mood in 11'09"01 is finger-pointing. The contribution by India's Mira Nair documents the agony of a Muslim boy in Brooklyn accused of conspiring with terrorists when he had actually gone to ground zero in a rescue effort. Several of the pieces?set in Chile (Ken Loach), Israel (Amos Gitai), Bosnia (Danis Tanovic)?make a single hectoring, helpful point: our countries have suffered atrocities for years, decades, centuries; welcome to the club, America. Egypt's Youssef Chahine argues that Islamic militants have the right to kill civilians in the U.S. and Israel because these...
...Plotkin got on the subway in Brooklyn, where he lives, and headed off to work...
...holding his hands out. Not to her, but to his angels. But maybe she's not dreaming; maybe she's just remembering a picture she has seen. She can't tell the difference now. She is so hungry. She fancies macaroni pie from Bake & Things, a Trinidadian restaurant in Brooklyn. Now she dreams of her mother. Her mom is talking to one of Genelle's sisters, but Genelle can't hear them. She sleeps...
...Genelle's life has taken on a staged quality. For months this year, she worked with Bride's to plan her July 13 wedding ceremony--even though she and Roger had married on Nov. 7. (They went to City Hall to wed just before Genelle was baptized at the Brooklyn Tabernacle; she didn't want to be baptized while she was still a fornicator.) Gail and Lauren say Genelle allowed herself to be pushed around by the media planners of the wedding, which was largely denuded of Trinidadian culture. There was a jazz trumpeter instead of calypso, grilled snapper instead...