music and its dance ~ an Africa-centered s/hero's journey perspective

UBUNTU: “Two Birds” ~ by Michael Jackson

August 29, 2012

“Two Birds” ~ Michael Jackson

from

Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream ~ Poems and Reflections (NY: Doubleday, 1992)

“It takes more than a horrifying trans-Atlantic voyage chained in the filthy hold of a slave ship to erase someone’s culture” ~ Maya Angelou

Malaika Mutere, Ph.D. is author of Towards an Africa-centered and pan-African theory of communication: Ubuntu and the Oral Aesthetic perspective Communicatio 38 (2) 2012: 147-163

 

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African Culture, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Pop Music

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