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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

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