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KUNM 89.9 FM L February 2010 P KUNM 89.9 FM l February 2010 89.9 ALBUQUERQUE l 88.7 SOCORRO l 89.9 SANTA FE l 90.9 TAOS l 90.5 CIMARRON/EAGLE NEST 91.9 ESPANOLA l 91.9 LAS VEGAS l 91.9 NAGEEZI l 90.5 CUBA 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. KUNM Operations Staff Elaine Baumgartel...............................................................................Reporter KUNM Radio Board Carol Boss.....................................................................Membership Relations Tristan Clum...............................................................Interim Program Director UNM Faculty Representatives: Briana Cristo..........................................................Vista Youth Radio Assistant Dorothy Baca Matthew Finch ...........................................................................Music Director John Scariano Roman Garcia .......................................................Interim Production Director UNM Staff Representative: Sarah Gustavus..................................................................................Reporter Mary Jacintha Rachel Kaub ....................................................................Operations Manager Elected Community Reps: Jonathan Longcore..............................................................IT Support Analyst Graham Sharman Linda Morris .........................................................Senior Fiscal Services Tech Appointed At-Large Reps: Cris Nichols .............................................................. Membership Coordinator Yasmin Dennig Mary Oishi ....................................................................Development Director Patrick O’Connell ASUNM Representatives: Roberta Rael......................................................Youth Radio Project Manager Vacant Rob Raucci .................................................Community Relations Coordinator GPSA Representative: Linda Rodeck .............................................. Underwriting Marketing Specialist Billie James Ulibarri Mike Stark .................................................................................Chief Engineer Volunteer Representative: Richard S. Towne .................................................................General Manager Linda Lopez McAlister Kamaria Umi.......................................................Youth Radio Production Tech Ex-Officio Members: Jim Williams ............................................................................... News Director Richard S. 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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
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