Word: hoodoo
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...scatological rereadings of history, Reed comes up with an idea called Neo-HooDooism, a pastiche of an imaginary, ancient African aesthetic and a rip-off from the HooDoo coven of black poets to which Reed belongs. What plot there is to Mumbo Jumbo deals with a search for the ancient, original HooDoo text...
...essential spirit of HooDoo is called Jes Grew. It slips into New Or leans and spreads across the country like a science-fiction plague. It is the jazz in the Jazz Age. Even Warren G. Harding is reported locked in the Lincoln Bedroom listening to The Whole World Is Jazz Crazy. Ranged against Jes Grew are the forces of the Wallflower Order (read those who do not dance...
Reed himself keeps prancing on his drum, preaching the glories of HooDoo culture. It is a welcome alternative to the bludgeoning lectures of LeRoi (Imamu Baraka) Jones. Or is it? The club is a quicker and more merciful weapon than the feather. -R.Z. Sheppard
Mistaken Impression. Daughter of a U.S. forest ranger, Jean Saubert, 21, learned to ski from her father, who took her to Sun Valley, Idaho, for two weeks' vacation once a year. The family settled in Cascadia, Ore., just 40 miles from Hoodoo Ski Bowl, and by the time she was 14, Jean was good enough to win the slalom at the National Junior Championship in Reno. But it is a long way from the junior championships to the Olympics, and nobody paid much attention when she finished sixth in the giant slalom...
...Liliuokalani is my Hoodoo...