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rostasi Posted May 19, 2021 Report Share Posted May 19, 2021 Edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Naima Karlsson and Magnus Nygren. Introduction by Lawrence Kumpf and Magnus Nygren. Text by Keith Knox, Rita Knox, Bengt af Klintberg, Iris R. Orton, Åke Holmquist, Pandit Pran Nath, John Esam, Michael Lindfield, Sidsel Paaske, George Trolin, Alan Halkyard, Moki Cherry, Don Cherry, Ben Young, Christer Bothén, Ruba Katrib, and Fumi Okiji. Interviews by Keith Knox and Rita Knox with Don Cherry, Terry Riley, and Steve Roney. Avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry (née Karlsson) met in Sweden in the late sixties. They began to live and perform together, dubbing their mix of communal art, social and environmentalist activism, children’s education, and pan-ethnic expression “Organic Music.” Organic Music Societies, Blank Forms’ sixth anthology, is a special issue released in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name devoted to the couple’s multimedia collaborations. The first English-language publication on either figure, the book highlights models for collectivism and pedagogy deployed in the Cherrys’ interpersonal and artistic work through the presentation of archival documents alongside newly translated and commissioned writings by musicians, scholars, and artists alike. Beginning with an overview by Blank Forms Artistic Director Lawrence Kumpf and Don Cherry biographer Magnus Nygren, this volume further explores Don’s work of the period through a piece on his Relativity Suite by Ben Young and an essay on the diasporic quality of his music by Fumi Okiji. Ruba Katrib emphasizes the domestic element of Moki’s practice in a biographical survey accompanied by full-color reproductions of Moki’s vivid tapestries, paintings, and sculptures, which were used as performance environments by Don’s ensembles during the Sweden years and beyond. Two selections of Moki’s unpublished writings—consisting of autobiography, observations, illustrations, and diary entries, as well as poetry and aphorisms—are framed by tributes from her daughter Neneh Cherry and granddaughter Naima Karlsson. Swedish Cherry collaborator Christer Bothén contributes period travelogues from Morocco, Mali, and New York, providing insight into the cross-cultural communication that would soon come to be called “world music.” The collection also features several previously unpublished interviews with Don, conducted by Christopher R. Brewster and Keith Knox. A regular visitor to the Cherry schoolhouse in rural Sweden, Knox documented the family’s magnetic milieu in his until-now unpublished Tågarp Publication. Reproduced here in its entirety, the journal includes an interview with Terry Riley, an essay on Pandit Pran Nath, and reports on counter-cultural education programs in Stockholm, including the Bombay Free School and the esoteric Forest University. Taken together, the texts, artwork, and abundant photographs collected in Organic Music Societies shine a long overdue spotlight on Don and Moki’s prescient and collaborative experiments in the art of living. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted May 19, 2021 Report Share Posted May 19, 2021 14 minutes ago, rostasi said: I have that on pre-order, published in a couple of weeks here. how is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted May 19, 2021 Report Share Posted May 19, 2021 Setting aside the somewhat "difficult" working relationship I currently have with Blank Forms (disclosure), I'm still impressed by their beautiful attention to detail in practically all of their books. It's a wonderful 500 page hardback that has nearly 30 articles, LOTS of beautiful color photos and B&W graphics of various fliers and general drawings. Got it last week, but am just starting it today. Skipping thru, there's a lot to see and it's very definitely becoming a permanent part of my collection (like the other five[?] books). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted May 19, 2021 Report Share Posted May 19, 2021 7 minutes ago, rostasi said: Setting aside the somewhat "difficult" working relationship I currently have with Blank Forms (disclosure), I'm still impressed by their beautiful attention to detail in practically all of their books. It's a wonderful 500 page hardback that has nearly 30 articles, LOTS of beautiful color photos and B&W graphics of various fliers and general drawings. Got it last week, but am just starting it today. Skipping thru, there's a lot to see and it's very definitely becoming a permanent part of my collection (like the other five[?] books). Thanks, that's good to hear that your impressions are positive (despite the source). Mine is a paperback edition but hopefully the quality control will be maintained. I'm looking forward to its arrival along with the two Cherry albums they're releasing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjazzg Posted May 24, 2021 Report Share Posted May 24, 2021 rereading this catalogue from six years ago. It seems only a couple of years since the exhibition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 Arts Coverage Commentary: A Conversation with Ted Gioia About New Approaches to Publishing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Committed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 11 hours ago, jlhoots said: Viet Thanh Nguyen: The Committed Did you read his first one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted May 25, 2021 Report Share Posted May 25, 2021 2 hours ago, Brad said: Did you read his first one? I read The Sympathizer & The Refugees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quasimado Posted May 26, 2021 Report Share Posted May 26, 2021 On 4/23/2021 at 11:38 PM, Brad said: I ran across this story via an interview by Ethan Iverson with Gerald Early; the interview was discussed here. Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin. https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/Baldwin-Sonnys-Blues.pdf It's taken from The Jazz Fiction Anthology, published by Indiana University Press. Fascinating - I'd never read Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" before - 50s, heroin, jazz ... Followed up with the Gerald Early/ Ethan Iverson discussion. Many thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted May 26, 2021 Report Share Posted May 26, 2021 1 minute ago, Quasimado said: Fascinating - I'd never read Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" before - 50s, heroin, jazz ... Followed up with the Gerald Early/ Ethan Iverson discussion. Many thanks It’s a great — if that’s the right word — story. I found the Early/Iverson article through here (maybe Mark Stryker), which led me to the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted May 28, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2021 Really enjoyed his book about the making of High Noon and so far this one is quite promising as well: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted May 29, 2021 Report Share Posted May 29, 2021 If you listen to jazz while eating dinner, you will have an easier time losing weight—but it needs to be “a high-pitched, slow-tempo jazz melody on piano.” On the other hand, dissonant guitar melodies in a minor key may lead to weight gain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rostasi Posted May 29, 2021 Report Share Posted May 29, 2021 One Man’s Quest to Build the Best Stereo System in the World Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted May 31, 2021 Report Share Posted May 31, 2021 I ordered this in anticipation of the release of the following in October Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwbol Posted June 3, 2021 Report Share Posted June 3, 2021 Still reading John McWhorter's Losing the Race. Now also reading Ken MacLeod's The Execution Channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost of miles Posted June 11, 2021 Author Report Share Posted June 11, 2021 On some sort of artist-in-city kick: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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erwbol Posted June 12, 2021 Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 On 31/05/2021 at 7:29 PM, erwbol said: Disturbing reading, and it's over 21 years old already. Seems clear things have not improved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted June 12, 2021 Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 14 hours ago, rostasi said: My copy is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rostasi Posted June 12, 2021 Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 1 hour ago, erwbol said: Disturbing reading, and it's over 21 years old already. Seems clear things have not improved. I have quite a bit of McWhorter’s talks on linguistics that I like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 12, 2021 Report Share Posted June 12, 2021 16 hours ago, rostasi said: The tone of the academic framing, I could live with, as what is being framed is pretty useful, but dammit, I would pay extra for a bigger font! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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