The daytime workshops will be complemented by evening community programs held at the Historic Lyric Theatre, 819 NW Second Avenue in Overtown. On Monday, June 18 at 5:30 p.m. a special "Maroon Double Feature" film showing will celebrate the Pan African spirit of resistance with a presentation of "Maluala" by Cuban filmmaker Sergio Giral and "Quilombo" by Brazilian filmmaker Carlos Diegues. Both have become modern classics. Based on historical fact, these powerful dramas depict the struggle of those who dared to escape from slavery and establish independent, fiercely defended Maroon communities. Time will be allowed for discussion after the films. June 19 is officially celebrated in several states as "Juneteenth," commemorating that date in 1865 when the last of the enslaved African American population in East texas received word of the Emancipation Proclamation at the end of the Civil War. Because "No one was really free until everyone was free," this date, shortened by custom over the years to "Juneteenth." was considered the true end of the institution of slavery in the United States.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
342 p., Analyzes how imperial control met with resistance and how Africans, Indians, and Spaniards, and their descendants interacted with one another. Her study uncovers an intersection and cross-fertilization of sociocultural measurements identifiable in the workplace, courts, church, and private lives. Brockington innovatively uses Spanish colonial documentary sources, including serial financial accounts of wealthy orphans, court cases, parish records, and census information of hacienda workers to elucidate race, ethnic, class, and gender issues within the colonial reality of contradiction and ambiguity.
Blumenfeld,Larry (Editor) and Wentz,Brooke (Music compiler)
Format:
Sound Recording
Language:
Various languages.
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Roslyn, N.Y.: Ellipsis Arts
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
2 sound discs: digital; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (128 p.), Celebrating the world's indigenous musical traditions, this book-and-music package spans all seven continents. Includes Garifuna, Australian aborigines, etc. Field recordings of folk music, songs, and chants; Principally excerpts from previously released recordings; discographic history given on disc container. Issued in container with booklet Voices of forgotten worlds: traditional music of indigenous people compiled and edited by Larry Blumenfeld. Music compiled by Brooke Wentz.
