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The Revolution Is Not Being Televised
08/02/10 00:10, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: curtis mayfield, freedom, gill scott heron, last poets, malcolm x, revolution, watts prophets Music does not need to be an opiate of the masses, you know. Music is war drums, bagpipes and horns screeching on the battlefield. Music is weddings and the funeral march. Music is school dances with boys at one side and girls at the other, nervous and unsure how to share their passion. Music is innocence and the surprise of feeling that sneaks up into the corner of your eyes and that sudden sob that stops your throat. Music is our heartbeats and our breathing and the rhythm of sex. Music is life and death and thought. more »
A Rose That Grew From Concrete
07/26/10 01:05, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: freedom, hip hop, last poets, lauryn hill, rap, tupac shakur, watts prophets It has been 16 years since Tupac Shakur' s death, and ten years since The Rose That Grew from Concrete, and I don't know what's going on with stuff, or if other people know what's going on. I've been too busy travelling the world in the past twenty years to know what's going on in the media. But I feel something universal, something that touches me, and I think his words are still, and maybe not heard. And perhaps there is something healing within them. Amidst the concrete, a rose grows. more »
A Road to Hip Hop
04/05/10 00:30, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: bfmn, black, blues, branford marsalis, digable planets, duke ellington, guru, hip-hop, jazz, last poets, new york, paul bourgeois, red hot + cool, stolen moments, waok, watts prophets I just had this discussion with one of my students, a girl from Detroit, and she told me I couldn't know much about hip-hop because I am a white Canadian, and she's right.… more »
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