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KUNM celebrates Black History Month!
Alfre Woodard hosts Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs, and Iyah Music Host Anthony “Ijah” Umi speaks with Activist/Comedian/Philosopher Dick Gregory on The Spoken Word Hour. Details on Page 11.
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Ned Sublette’s Principles of Postmamboism
By Richard S. Towne, KUNM General Manager In order to better serve the academic mission of KUNM, I wish to bring to your attention a most wonderful, en- lightening and amusing piece of writing by Professor Ned Sublette, President and Scholar Pre-Eminente at the Insti- tute for PostMambo Studies.
Professor Sublette, mostly known as Ned, or Ned Sublette, recently pub- CONTENT: lished his “Principles of Postmambo- Ned Sublette...... 1 ism.” I first noticed this in an e-mail note from KUNM Salsa Church of Beethoven...... 5 Sabrosa host, Louis Head, linking me to BOINGBOING and Radio Highlights...... 10 Ned’s posting from December 15, 2009. Program Underwriters...... 13 Ned is no stranger to KUNM and KUNM listeners. Ac- cording to his bio at Lovely Music, Ltd. (www.lovely.com), “With funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Ned Sublette has organized and directed two Radio Performance Projects and a Radio Production Workshop at KUNM-FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In these projects he has produced works, both pre-recorded and for live broadcast, by many composers including Robert Ashley, John Cage, Peter Gordon and Alvin Lucier.”
Business line: (505) 277-4806, The New American Radio Catalogue (www.somewhere. toll-free 1-877-277-4806 org/NAR) says “Sublette was four times a composer in-resi- Request line: (505) 277-5615, dence at KUNM-FM, Albuquerque. There he developed such toll-free 1-888-277-5615 projects as the first ever complete performance of John Cage’s Member Services: (505) 277-3968 Mailing address: MSC06 3520, Empty Words.” 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001 On a visit to KUNM many years ago, Ned told me that Cage was scheduled to perform the work himself here Email your comments or at KUNM, but fell ill and was unable to participate in the questions to [email protected]. flesh. Your email will be forwarded to the appropriate Ned’s work at KUNM includes the noted installation of staff person. Alvin Lucier’s “Music on a Long Thin Wire” at the Winrock Mall. This audio installation was broadcast on KUNM for a five-day period in 1979. Wikipedia says that a young Ned … Continued on Page 4 “Sublette,” Continued from Page 3 studied Spanish Classical Guitar with Hector Garcia at the study of music. University of New Mexico and with Emilio Pujol in Spain. He grew up in Portales, New Mexico, moved to New York City Postmamboism acknowledges a dialectic between its es- in 1976, and has worked with John Cage, LaMonte Young, sential reference point of music that is popular (literally, of Glenn Branca, and Peter Gordon. the people, signifying music that springs from historical roots and, relying on memory and person-to-person transmission, is Ned was, for several years, a producer for the AfroPop infinitely renewable), and pop, which is presentist and must Worldwide radio program. You’ll know Ned if you have be mediated, consumed and replaced. Postmamboism speaks listened to Mary B.’s Freeform show. Ned’s got that “Ghost in the vernacular, deprivileging jargon, cultic language, and Riders in the Sky” with Cubano drums and horns sound to hyperpolysyllabicism. Postmamboism values the testimony, it. Cowboy Rumba? That’s Ned. experience, and vocabulary of cultural practitioners, because for Postmamboists as for musicians, theory must be connected Please enjoy Ned’s thoughtful “Principals of Postmambo- to practice. ism.” An essential quality of Postmamboism is that it cannot Postmamboism is a portable theory that places music be only preached, but must also be practiced, through im- at the center of understanding and uses music to interrogate mersion in music. This implies the scholar’s attainment of a other fields of study. level of socialization not required by other theoretical brands, and demands a commitment to the kinesthetic. Dancing is While the premises and methods of Postmamboism are ap- understood by Postmamboists to be a deep listening state plicable across a wide variety of musics, the discipline begins inseparable from the associated musical experience. Working with the study of African and African diaspora musics, given knowledge of a musical instrument is not absolutely necessary, their historical centrality to the music of the world and their but highly useful; Postmamboism’s dynamic of scholarship deep connection through slavery, neoslavery, and liberation combined with real-world musical practice entails ear training struggles to fundamental questions of colonialism, capital- on an ongoing basis. Postmamboist conferences emphasize ism, and civilization. Postmamboism calls for a thorough the direct experience of music as part of the discourse. knowledge of music of the black Atlantic, and implicitly has much to do with the emergent field of Atlantic studies, but Postmamboism grew out of informal conversations among its techniques and perspective can work with any musical scholars and practitioners in Havana, New Orleans, New culture. York, and other capitals of the Afro-Atlantic world. Without having a name, it has nonetheless been practiced by scholars Postmamboism is urgently interested in the ancient history in a wide variety of fields working with music as a central of all civilizations, including both that which is documented avenue or focus of investigation. Postmamboism is cynical through archaeology in the dry, heavily excavated zones of about the existing university system, seeing it as a place the Mediterranean Rim and Asia, and that which rotted in the where intellectuals are neutralized by rendering their ideas humidity and archaeological neglect of sub-Saharan Africa unintelligible, while students and aspirants to its Priesthood and must be studied by other means. are systematically exploited and driven into debt as class divisions between the educated and the uneducated deepen. The term Postmamboism derives from the Kikongo word imbú, likely used in Cuba from the 16th century on, that Postmamboism is activist, in that it seeks not merely to is variously translated as “word,” “law,” “song,” or “important describe the world but to improve it, by applying the corporeal, matter,” and which is pluralized as ma-imbú, or mambo. The communitarian, and spiritual power of music to contempo- prefix “post” is understood to mean not “what replaced,” but rary thought and action. Given the historical role of music as “what happened after the world was transformed by.” subaltern discourse, Postmamboism also reserves the right to deploy satire and mockery, and more broadly, to celebrate Postmamboism is closely allied with (but not limited carnival in infinitely varying forms. to) history, anthropology, linguistics, literature and critical theory, cultural studies, religious studies, urban studies, com- © 2009 Institute for Postmambo Studies; This work is licensed munications, performing and plastic arts, and all manner of under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commer- Africanist and Hispanist study, to say nothing of musicology cial sharing with attribution. [ and ethnomusicology. Overlapping with other theoretical perspectives, Postmamboism is intrinsically cross-disciplin- ary and bi-directional: if music provides a way to hear into history, history also provides a necessary grounding to the
Church of Beethoven and Early Bird Drawings Have Something in Common? by Mary Oishi, KUNM Development Director In January, I had the immense pleasure of doubled in the past 3 years, I’m happy to say), the amount reading poetry at the Church of Beethoven. we must take in during our on-air fundraisers has gone down a bit. So for the Spring of 2010, we need to take in a total Felix Wurman (1958-2009), founder of the of $300,000. It is unrealistic to expect more than $175,000 Church of Beethoven, explained the concept to come from pledges called in and given on-line during our of the “Church” in an NPR interview: “Really, one-week fundraiser. So I had to set a goal of $125,000 to the idea is to find spirituality through culture, come in the mail and on-line before we ever go on the air through the cultural gifts that so many people have suffered on March 20th. for and created over so many generations. There’s so much information there that’s useful.” To help in that effort, the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market donated two lovely “textile treasures,” one That statement resonated from Kyrgyzstan folk artist, Tatiana Vorotnikova, (a 3’ X 4’ with me. I think that’s pre- multicultural embroidered and stitched wall hanging with a cisely what draws me and retail value of $350) and one from Georgian folk artist, Nino many others to music and po- Kipshidze, (a 2 ½’ x 2’ woven textile with geometric patterns, etry and literature and visual with a retail value of $300). Everyone whose response card art and dance and theater and (the one mailed to you near the end of January) is received by film and folk art. It is in these 5 pm on March 19th, or who registers on-line by that time, cultural gifts we find paths to will be entered in the drawings to win one of these beauti- spiritual source, if you will, ful tapestries. They and ancestral information are not just folk art about what it means to be objects. They hold the human, how to find joy and spirit of two cultures hope and beauty—and make that were sequestered Felix Wurman (1958-2009) it through. Church of Beethoven Founder for decades behind the “Iron Curtain,” so It is also one of the rea- little is known of them sons I find my job at KUNM so satisfying. KUNM is one in the West. place that really serves as a hub of culture in New Mexico: where we share culture and learn from each other’s cultures F r o m a n c i e n t and from cultures all around the world. I am so happy to play times, the Kyrgyz a vital part in keeping that forum open and strong for all of people have led a no- Tatiana Vorotnikova - 3’ x 4’ Multicultural us. And I am thrilled that so many New Mexicans—and some madic way of life in embroidered and stitched wall hanging. beyond our borders—choose to pitch in and help to keep it the mountains and the happening. I’m talking about you. Thank you. steppes, in both hot and cold climates. They wore layered loose and comfortable clothing, adding extra skirts and lin- Beyond the statistic that individual listeners provide over ings in the winter. Everyday clothes were functional with less half of what it takes to keep KUNM operating is the deeper elaborate embroidery and accessories. Clothes for special truth that this is precisely why KUNM is completely safe from events, festivals, and celebrations were made from more ex- becoming a singular homogenized voice, bought, sanitized, pensive fabrics and featured elaborate embroidery. Tatiana and stripped of color and spirit. This is why I hope that statistic Vorotnikova has researched traditional Kyrgyz clothes and never goes down. created collections that she uses to conduct master classes. Her students are learning to value Kyrgyz folk art and develop So, as Development Director, I set goals for pledge drives their artistic sensibility through their traditional cultural heri- that will continue to keep KUNM “community-powered.” tage. In other words, if you are the winner you will receive a That is, I know exactly how much we must continue to receive cultural gift that, to borrow Felix Wurman’s words, “so many from individual members to maintain that 50%. Fortunately, people have suffered for and created over so many genera- as our ongoing monthly giver numbers go up (they have tions.” Continued on Page 6 “Church” Continued from Page 5
Nino Kipshidze, who Hate Answering Telephones attended the Santa Fe International Folk Art But Still Want to Help KUNM Market for three years During Pledgedrives? running, is the founder and president of The We need people to Georgian Textile Group assist with parking (GTG). She has been in- and food pick-up, volved in crafts since her set-up and clean-up. studies at the Academy If you like being of Fine Arts. GTG is an outdoors, and have association of artists, de- a current driver’s signers, researchers, art Nino Kipshidze - 2-1/2’ x 2’ license and vehicle, historians, and ethnogra- Woven textile with geometric patterns. phers working to revive please consider fill- and improve the quality ing a 3-1/2 hour shift: of Georgian folk textile art and craft and to support artisans Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday, March 22, works and by creating an international market for their work. 23, 24, or 26th. Shift times: 8:45 am – 12:15 pm, In addition to her more than twenty years’ experience with 12:15 pm – 3:45 pm, 3:45 pm – 7:15 pm. textile studies and production, Nino makes patchwork col- lage and felt wall hangings using designs based on traditional We’ll feed you and give you a Georgian felt patterns. She too is doing all she can to preserve KUNM tee shirt for helping!!Y the spirit of the Georgian people and culture alive. For more info, or to sign up for a shift, We will not have daily prizes during the pledge drive call 505-277-4516 or email [email protected]. itself, so your only chance to win anything during the Spring 2010 pledge drive is to send in your donation and/or registra- tion ahead of time. The pool for these two folk art textiles will be quite small compared to the pool that accumulates when we give away prizes during the pledge drive. So your chances of winning are greatly increased. And because each piece is valued under $600, we will not need to report your winning to the IRS for tax purposes. So get in on the Early Bird Draw- ing, but more importantly, do what you can to help us reach our goal and help keep KUNM community-powered…and culturally nourishing.
We’ll reward you with great radio year ‘round and with member events that will make you so glad you continued your membership. (Stay tuned for something really exciting planned in 2010!) And if you donate at least $5 a month, we’ll thank you with a bright blue, 20-ounce stainless steel KUNM water bottle just in time for Spring and Summer outings.
Here’s hoping your February is filled with love and your March with luck! [
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