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UbuNtu ~ On Owning Your Masters

“If you don’t own your masters, your masters own you.” On his B’Earth’Day [June 7th] in 1993, Prince changed his name to the unpronounceable ‘Love Symbol’ of his recently released 14th studio album following disagreements with Warner Brothers… Read More

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Posted on June 7, 2018 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, New Age, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pop Music, Reparations

afrofuturism, Ankh, art-for-life's-sake, Ausar, Auset, Beatles, Big Joe Turner, Big Mama Thornton, Bill Haley, Chaos and Disorder, Comparative Musicology, Elvis Presley, Emancipation, ethnomusicology, Etta James, Fats Domino, Fred Parris, Georgia Gibbs, Grand Arcanum, Hantu, Heru, Hieros Gamos, hunter-gatherer, Kuntu, Little Richard, Love Symbol, Magnum Opus, Masters, Musicology, New Age, New Power Generation, Pat Boone, Prince, Race Music, Rolling Stones, Set, Song of Songs, ubuntu, Warner Brothers

HaNtu: Afrofuturism “In the Stone”

~ Posted in honor of African-American Music Appreciation Month, June 2017 ~ “The artist is meant to put the objects of this world together in such a way that through them you will experience that light, that radiance… Read More

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Posted on June 7, 2017 by malaika mutere

African Culture, African Proverbs, Afrocentricity, afrofuturism, Colonial Experience, Hero's Journey, Oral Aesthetics, Oral Tradition, Pop Music, Reparations, Shero's Journey, Storytelling

African-American Music Appreciation Month, afrofuturism, Alice Coltrane, Black Athena, Earth Wind & Fire, Erykah Badu, EWF, Hantu, Hieroglyphics, In the Stone, Janelle Monae, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry, Luxor Temple, Martin Bernal, Maurice White, Michael Jackson, Parliament Funkadelic, Prince, Ras G, Sun Ra

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