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Black music left Africa in the slave ship and later became work songs, gospel music, the blues, Afro-Cuban and jazz. September 1-3, 1972, Black music returned to its source. With the First International Jazz Festival in Tangiers, Morocco, jazz came home...
...recognize this swelling chorus as the refrain of a fat and experience racket. When a group in any society makes coercive claims to subsidy upon others, it implicitly assumes an entitlement to the lives and property of other individuals. The claim does not differ in essence from the one slave-holders imposed on slaves in the Old South: the group demands that others live for its sake. Profession of special worth does not justify coercive intervention on behalf of any interest group, no matter how skillfully the group may portray its aims as in the "common interest...
...portrays Lady Caroline like a seasick naiad. She is married to that steadfast politician William Lamb (Jon Finch), who is later to become Lord Melbourne, no thanks to her. Caroline conducts a mad love affair with Lord Byron (Richard Chamberlain), submitting eagerly to such ignominious charades as playing Nubian slave to his surly prince. She thereby offers herself as a willing victim to the Romantic Agony, not to mention the subsequent shame, strife and scandal...
...Bruce Thomas, 24, took off for Canada in 1969, after his draft board changed his classification to 1-A. He got a job as a recreation director in Slave Lake, Alta., and soon took over as editor of the weekly paper, the Lesser Slave Lake Scope. The paper keeps Thomas, his Alberta-born wife and one employee busy. A self-confessed "disturber of the social scene," he goes after conflicts of interest in the local council and finds frequent opportunity to warn his readers against the "rat race of U.S. life." Amnesty, he says, does not matter to him. "Some...
...When the slave raiders come, Bay-ungumay, Solitude's mother-to-be, is chained and shipped off to the plantations on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. There, African animism and life cycles are replaced by the auction block and the permanent registry system: the list of slaves never changes, and the names of the dead are transferred to the living...