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Steppin in Milwaukee -- Donald Byrd's Places and Spaces Out There 1,019

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Chicago-Style Steppin Steppin, a Chicago Dance developed out of the Bop in Chicago, is a type of urban ballroom. There is a whole culture around steppin, with a steppin community in nearly every major city in the United States.

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Swahili Rhythms: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda Mugithi, Zilizopendwa, Bongo Flava, Swahili and Kikuyu music of Kenya, Tanzania , Uganda

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Cape Verde Rhythms - Funana, Kizomba, Zouk Funana and all the beautiful music of Cape Verde! Kizomba, cabo zouk, funana, great dance, great guitar, great beat!! I love the funana beat! Cabo Verde, Cape Verde, Cap-Vert, is a circle of ten African islands off the coast of Dakar, Senegal, producing some of the world's best rhythms!!!

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Folk Rhythms -- Tonalities of Resistance The rhythms and melodies of folk music helped to take revolutionary concepts and give them form as a revitalization of traditions, thereby grounding the radical with a sense of historical rootedness, making the contemporary conservatism seem shallow and trendy. In the voice and tones you sense a wind of melancholy, as a longing for an originary experience, where something new is shown to be a recovery of the original meaning of things ---"We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get back to the garden," as Joni Mitchell put it. Some of the lyrics lay it all out, like Buffy Saint-Marie's "My country 'tis of thee, my people you're dying," and others, like Early Morning Rain by Peter, Paul and Mary produce a sense of compassion and love, which are components in revolutionary transformation and the substance of it even though the lyrics may not announce a specific problem or program. Some songs deceive you with their playfulness or their danceable beat but they speak of the homeless (Crystal Waters) or offer social criticism. Some use folk rhythms to lift up the spirits of the oppressed, "keep your head up," as Tupac says, or to remind us of what sincere feelings were in a world where truth and love are marginalized if not erased. The tonalities of resistance we hear in folk rhythms are voices of love and sincerity for those who know they are "livin in a hateful world," as Bone Thugs N Harmony said, an expression which folk artists like Pete Seeger, Buffy Saint-Marie and Nina Simone each said in their own way.

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Wind and Soul

Spirit:
In Hebrew, only "ruach,"
Wind.

Spirits:
Looming thought-shadows,
Large as clouds.

Sparks
Fluttering upward
In the fire.

Red fish
Rippling through
The brook's black stones.

A lichen-crested pine root
That drifts along, senselessly
Abandoned.

Ruach:
Raw, turbulent wind
Rushing through us.

Soul is rhythm.

In sparkling snow,
Cloud-shadows flit across
A homeless child's eyelids.

Wind rushes:
Hoarfrost. Chilblains.
Bang of branches.

Sky:
A gray sea,
In which the gold moon watches

As a wounded vixen,
Homesick and bleeding,
At last unwinds her limbs.

One soul's dissonant call,
Defeated by the somber song
Of wind.

Wind and soul.

--Marcus DeWitt © 2008

Welcome to "Wind and Soul,"
a place to channel in the poetic and philosophic vibes for a while.

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