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  • BLUESNIK'S REVOX
    Full Member
    • Dec 2010
    • 4314

    Maya Angelou RIP..

    (CNN) -- A literary voice revered
    globally for her poetic command and
    her commitment to civil rights has
    fallen silent.

    Maya Angelou died at her home in
    Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on
    Wednesday, said her literary agent,
    Helen Brann.

    The 86-year-old was a novelist,
    actress, professor, singer, dancer and
    activist. In 2010, President Barack
    Obama named her the recipient of
    the Medal of Freedom, the country's
    highest civilian honor.

    One of Angelou's most
    praised books was "I
    Know Why the Caged
    Bird Sings."

    The memoir bore witness
    to the brutality of a Jim
    Crow South, portraying
    racism in stark language.
    Readers learned of the
    life of Marguerite Ann Johnson
    (Angelou's birth name) up to the
    age of 16: how she was abandoned
    by her parents and raped by her
    mother's boyfriend. She was
    homeless and became a teen
    mother.

    Its publication was both daring and
    historic given the era of its debut in
    1969.
    "All of the writers of my generation
    must honor the ground broken by
    Dr. Maya Angelou," author Tayari
    Jones posted on her Facebook page
    Wednesday.
    "She told a story that wasn't allowed
    to be told," Jones said. "Now, people
    tell all sorts of things in memoir, but
    when she told the truth, she
    challenged a taboo -- not for shock
    value, but to heal us all."

    Black American novelist Julian
    Mayfield is said to have described
    the autobiography as "a work of art
    which eludes description."

    She was also a big friend/admirer of Max Roach.

    BN.
  • aka Calum Da Jazbo
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 9173

    #2
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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      #3
      In addition to her well-known autobiographies, Maya Angelou has steadily written poetry over the years. In this video Professor Angelou recites her poem, "An...


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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37814

        #4
        A great loss.

        Within a year of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings coming out in this country, Keith Tippett had composed and toured a tribute suite for his then-septet (Marc Charig, Nick Evans, Larry Stabbins, Elton Dean, Paul Rogers, Tony Levin) titled A Loose Kite in a Gentle Wind Floating with Only My Will for an Anchor, the title based on a passage from the book. it was later released on Hazel Miller's Ogun label to a fanfare of dismissal from The Wire magazine, and we were not amused.

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        • BLUESNIK'S REVOX
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 4314

          #5
          Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View Post
          A great loss.

          Within a year of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings coming out in this country, Keith Tippett had composed and toured a tribute suite for his then-septet (Marc Charig, Nick Evans, Larry Stabbins, Elton Dean, Paul Rogers, Tony Levin) titled A Loose Kite in a Gentle Wind Floating with Only My Will for an Anchor, the title based on a passage from the book. it was later released on Hazel Miller's Ogun label to a fanfare of dismissal from The Wire magazine, and we were not amused.
          "Spotting Howard Dodson,
          curator of Howard University’s
          historic Spingarn Collection, eyes
          glued intently to one particular
          artifact, he informed me that he was
          reading a fascinating, deeply
          passionate handwritten letter from
          Maya Angelou to Max Roach in the
          sad aftermath of Malcolm X’s
          assassination. Adjacent to that letter
          was a vivid photo of Max picketing
          Carnegie Hall on behalf of the
          “Africa for Africans” cause that had
          famously disrupted a Miles Davis
          concert appearance."

          I went to primary and grammar school with Nick Evans and lent him a Mulligan/Brookmeyer EP when he was learning trombone and chkng. Chris Barber... "dig this", I said..."get with the hip sounds of young Newport" ( in Wales ).

          Did he ever once in his long career dedicate a Blues for Bluesnik? No not ever.....I should have knocked his grammar school cap off with my copy of On the Road...

          BN.

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