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Tag: Louise Bernice Half

March 6, 2017July 19, 2017 pauldbwatkins Academic, Indigenous, Interview

A Healing and Honest Path: In Conversation with Louise Bernice Halfe

I talk with Louise Bernice Halfe about her contribution of four poems to the Malahat’s Indigenous Perspectives issue: “Finding Bone,” “God of nightmares,” “it was a pure,” and “Skeletons and Cannibals.”

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I’m back with another post for #WHMVinylChallenge, hosted by @vinylettes and @discogs, and today’s theme is Mellow Gold co-hosted by @christinavinylphile for #mellowgoldMondays. Friday mood: Sleaford Mods’ 𝔻𝕚𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝔼𝕩𝕚𝕥. Not everyone’s cup of tea (not that music ever has to be), but if you dig post-punk, gritty spoken word, and working-class perspectives, give them a listen. One of my favourite singers—the great Miss Jill Scott—returns after an 11-year hiatus with a stunner of an album. It moves between genres with ease, including R&B, hip-hop, neo-soul, and jazz, and speaks truths with unapologetic verve. It’s my “new obsession” and my choice for today’s #WHMVinylChallenge, hosted by @vinylettes and @discogs. Master of Puppets turns 40 today! ✞ Do you have this one on wax, and what’s your favourite track? Lately, I’ve bookended my days with poetry: usually more politically minded work in the morning, and then before bed I alternate between Mary Oliver and Leonard Cohen. It helps to set these intentions: activated and then contemplative. Those pulses aren’t always so neatly demarcated, but it helps to have a general rhythm, especially in how I start and end my day (and away from my phone). I’ve read Cohen before, although hardly all his work, and, of course, I’ve listened to his music a fair amount. His first three albums—Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), Songs from a Room (1969), and Songs of Love and Hate (1971)—are cornerstones of folk, bending poetry into song and song into poetry. Perfect for a Sunday. “Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps.” Today’s spin for #FortyFiveFriday is #NoComment from Irish icons and (good) troublemakers #Kneecap and features Banksy’s art at the Royal Courts of Justice. I’m also sporting my official Kneecap Bohemian FC kit (30% of profits from the shirt support a fund to help build a community music studio for artists and musicians in the Aida Camp, West Bank). Get yours today. 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 Black women have always been at the forefront of protest music, confronting racism directly and often showing the way forward. Here are seven songs that “reflect the times” (Simone) and attest to that legacy of resistance. Moreover, art has always had a political dimension (I’m looking at you, Berlinale). Swipe through to see my picks, but keep in mind that this is only a small sampling of what’s out there. Most include song/video excerpts, but it felt wrong to cut any of the music video from ALA.NI on Emmett Till, so I’ve included it in full. Back on this day, February 23, 1999, The Roots released their breakthrough album, 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝔽𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝔸𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥. The title comes from Chinua Achebe’s novel of the same name, which itself takes its title from a line in W. B. Yeats’s apocalyptic poem “The Second Coming.” The album cover depicts this social breakdown in the context of racial terror in America, using a stark black-and-white civil rights era photo that shows riot police chasing two Black teenagers.

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