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The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Continuing the Struggle for Racial Justice – King’s Visits to Oberlin
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made several visits to Oberlin during the Civil Rights Movement. King’s first official visit to Oberlin, in February of 1957, was just a couple months after he and the Montgomery Improvement Association successfully ended their 381-day bus boycott. It was during this historic boycott that King began to make a name for himself as a leader in the movement. Oberlin was fortunate to have Dr. King speak not once, but three times, during his visit. Speaking on the topics “Justice Without Violence” and “The New Negro in the South” at the First Church of Oberlin and on “The Montgomery Story” during a noon assembly at Finney Chapel, Dr. King enlightened the college and town communities as to the nature of the growing Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King’s constant activism was proving to be quite a surprise to his Dexter Avenue Baptist Church congregation in Montgomery, who had appointed him in hopes that he would be less radical than their former pastor, Oberlin graduate Vernon Johns. Continue reading The time is always right to do what is right” – Martin Luther King Jr.
PLAYLIST: APPALACHIAN SUNDAY MORNING, by Danny Hensley, 1-15-2017, pt 1 of 2, via mix cloud
Another fantastic country gospel show, curated by the extremely knowledgeable and personable Danny Hensley from the SBB radio network in Nashville. A veritable college course in appalachian gospel music. Highly recommended.
PLAYLIST: REVERBERATION #248, via mixcloud
A great, eclectic mood mix of garage, rock, psych and roll from the busy people at Reverberation Radio.
TERRY WINTERS: UNINTENDED THINGS TO HAPPEN, interview, Louisiana Museum, 2015 9 min.
A wonderful, thoughtful short interview with the artist Terry Winters by Anders Kold at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark in August 2015. Continue reading TERRY WINTERS: UNINTENDED THINGS TO HAPPEN, interview, Louisiana Museum, 2015 9 min.
GAGAKU: The Court Music Of Japan, documentary, 1989, 60 min.
Gagaku: The Court Music of Japan is an 1989 documentary exploring the history and forms of this hauntingly beautiful ancient Japanese music. Host for the program is Dr. William P. Malm, Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan, who introduces the instruments of gagaku and the musicians who play them. Also featured in the program is Suenobu Togi, Gagaku Master at UCLA and Dr. Sidney Brown, Professor of Asian Studies of the University of Oklahoma, who explains the historic roots of gagaku. Performances by the Imperial Court Orchestra in Tokyo illustrate the contrasting styles of gagaku.
Gregory Halpern, from his new book ZZYZX, a visual pilgrimage in Southern California
(republished from Time Lightbox, http://time.com/4476737/california-gregory-halpern/)
In Gregory Halpern’s new book, ZZYZX, the viewer is taken on what feels like a visual pilgrimage, exploring southern California both in and around Los Angeles. Shot between 2008 and 2015, Halpern’s images were directly inspired by the city itself, with the route beginning east of Los Angeles, in the desert, then traveling through the city, and eventually ending at the Pacific Ocean. This path can be likened to America’s Westward Expansion, while capturing the essence of Los Angeles’ unique diversity. Continue reading Gregory Halpern, from his new book ZZYZX, a visual pilgrimage in Southern California
SALLY MANN :: DEEP SOUTH, 2005
“To identify a person as a Southerner suggests not only that her history is inescapable and formative but that it is also impossibly present. Southerners live uneasily at the nexus between myth and reality, watching the mishmash amalgam of sorrow, humility, honor, graciousness, and renegade defiance play out against a backdrop of profligate physical beauty.”
― Sally Mann, Deep South
PLAYLIST: THE GET DOWN MIXTAPE, by Sound Cool Records, via Mixcloud
A great, eclectic mix of get down, disco, soul, funk & early south bronx hip-hop from London’s Sound Cool Records.
KOSHIRO ONCHI, father of the sōsaku-hanga movement
Color woodblock print with pastel overdrawing 70.0 x 51.5 cm
From the fourth First Thursday Collection (Ichimoku-shu) 1948, 1951. Multimedia color print 36.5 x 28.2 cm
“Art is not to be understood by the mind but by the heart. If we go back to its origin, painting is expressed in color and form by the heart, and it should never be limited to a world of reflected forms captured by visual sense. Therefore, expression of the heart through color and forms separated from color and form in the real world is that true realm of painting. I will for the time call this type of work the ‘lyrique’.” -Koshiro Onchi
The Incubator 