MIT assistant professor and saxophonist Miguel Zenón won a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album. He and pianist Luis Perdomo won for their album "El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2."
The theme for the 2024 Black Music Symposium explores the rich culture of the Caribbean nations and their contributions to music genres. Events begin Jan. 31 and run through Feb. 4. Find out more.
(AVENEL, NJ) On Sunday, October 9, 2022 from 2:30pm to 4:30pm, Alborada Spanish Dance Theatre presents Heartbeats - Spain and the Afro-Caribbean Connection at the Avenel Performing Arts Center. Drums, the heartbeat of music and dance and communal communnicators of cultures are the inspiration for Alborada s exciting new production, Heartbeats!
Yes, that
Marseillaise: the anthem of liberty written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792 and France’s national song. In 1934 the British Union of Fascists needed a song of its own. But its publication Fascist Week rejected Elgar’s
Land of Hope and Glory, a far-Right favourite then as now, because “it stands for ideals we regard as obsolete”.
The Italian fascist anthem
Giovinezza was deemed too, well, Italian. Instead, asked
Blackshirt magazine (the British Union of Fascists’ newspaper), “Who is to be the first ‘Rouget de Lisle’ to give the Movement a
Marseillaise?”
The anti-democratic Right had a precedent here: in 1799, reactionary Royal Navy chaplain Alexander Duncan also proposed imitating the Marseillaise. But the idea never caught on, and today Britain’s far-Right favours