Tomorrow is Juneteenth, and we are already celebrating by listening to live blues from Club Raggs in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on KQXL – 106.5 FM. Last weekend was the Donaldsonville Juneteenth Festival, rumored to be good. Axé.
One summer long ago we went to the beach every day. Diva played for months at the repertory cinema, and we went to see it every weekend. Here is the key scene, with the aria from Catalani’s opera: The song is sung again and also explained in this video from the Caffè Trieste. In Italy … More Ebben? Ne andrò lontana…
It is the weekend, and we have forgotten to sing lately, so we will sing a marvelous and savage song with Chavela Vargas. Today, an excellent day for spells and healing, we feature this post on alternatives to academic labor, by a good professor with a good blog we should all read around in. Here, … More Encadenados
Any time is a good time for a son jarocho, so we will now sing the Tilingo Lingo: If you liked that here is El Tamaulipeco, with good violin: Neither of these videos has wonderful visuals. I am posting them for the sound and also because California, where I have recently been, is so very … More El Tilingo Lingo
I am going home for a few days and I can hardly believe it. Here is California, Here I Come recorded by the California Ramblers, also known as the Golden Gate Orchestra, in 1924, the same year it was written: Al Jolson sung it famously in blackface, in 1946. I do not approve of the … More California Ramblers
It is the weekend, so we will sing. WWOZ, that is, W-Wizard of Oz, plays a lot of traditional jazz in the morning and I have discovered that this is the very best music for grading. One moves along in regal manner, striding right down the hill toward graduation. I think of the St. Augustine … More Dr. Michael White
You cannot tell from this blog, but I am culturally undernourished and I lack exercise. This is a Wandering Post because this weekend, I have been strolling. As it is the weekend, I am also singing. I sing that T. and I are about to go eat rico menudo in the real barrio, and that … More La felicidad ja, ja, ja, ja: On Walking While White
“Para empezar a cantar / pido permiso primero.” –Corrido de Benjamín Argumedo It is the weekend, and I am singing the Internationale but more importantly, a set of corridos to increase my levels of machismo and mexicanidad. Now that we are to be armed at the university, I may just have to put on my … More Oigan mi nuevo corrido
It is the weekend, so we are singing. Today we rather incongruously practiced danzón behind the stage while waiting for the Hot 8. Resignation is not one the Hot 8′s strong points. I, however, have discovered that resignation, that machine to reproduce ideology and the social order, is all the rage. People call it “acceptance” … More The Hot Eight
When I was under the influence of Reeducation it seemed that research, teaching, and my real self had been placed in a glass case, where they were now static mementos I could not touch. I would look at them through the impregnable glass and try to break it with my head. I would turn my … More Breaking Glass
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