BritishBlackMusic.com For BBMM2013 - BBMM 2013: Wikimedia UK British Black Music Month Editathon Workshop June 30

Wikimedia UK British Black Music Month Editathon Workshop
Sunday June 30, 2-6pm
Wikimedia UK, 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT (Old Street tube station)
Free, but pre-booking is essential: http://bbmm2013wiki.eventbrite.co.uk

Please note that it is a small group - so if you can make it, you better book now!


This year, to coincide with British Black Music Month (BBMM), Wikimedia UK in conjunction with BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress (BBM/BMC), is organising a Wikipedia editathon workshop on June 30 at its London headquarters.

The aim of this free workshop is to empower internet users to be more than passive users, by being able to proactively use Wikipedia either in editing or creating new content. It will explore some of the British black music histories online and work on editing and adding information to Wikipedia (including biographies on some vintage and current acts, and organisations).

So if you are particularly interested in British black music or African British history, and believe Wikipedia needs better representation of these interest areas, this editathon will enable you to do something about it. You will learn how to use the editing facilities and understand the protocols of an editor.

You do not have to be an experienced writer or techie - what is required is an interest and passion to engage. Representatives from Wikimedia UK and BBM/BMC will be on hand to show you how the site works and answer your questions. There will also be books, magazines, and online resources to help you start work documenting British black music or African British history on Wikipedia.

As a guide, if you do not do it when nobody is watching, if you don’t do it when there’s no money involved, if people tell you to stop, and this stops you, then it probably isn’t really you, your art, your culture. It is at best, a borrowed expression, for which credit must be given, or at worst, misappropriation.
Monty

cinekenya:

Spread out over two CDs and one triple LP, Kenya Special is accompanied by detailed liner notes, original artwork and photographs. It reveals a treasure-trove of rare and unusual recordings from East Africa by exploring Kikuyu ‘liquid soul,’ Swahili afrobeat, to genre-bending Congolese and Tanzanian tracks recorded in Nairobi.

Kenya Special is a collection of 32 recordings (most of which were only released on small-run 45rpm 7″ singles) that stand out as being different or unique as well as some classic genre standards. Ciné Kenya previously posted about Swahili Rumba when Just A Band released a rendition of Issa Juma’s song ‘Matatizo’ here.

This release follows on from Soundway Records’ ‘Africa Special’ series that has focused on the afrobeat output from 1970s Nigeria (Tunji Oyelana: A Nigerian Retrospective 1966 – 79) and Ghana (Ghana Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Ghanaian Blues 1968 – 1981).

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I need a hero:  Film production recruiting cast, crew and local partners ; Wednesday 12th June 2013 2:30 - 4:30

I need a hero:  Film production recruiting cast, crew and local partners ; Wednesday 12th June 2013 2:30 - 4:30

Music is The Magic @ Marc Carey - For The Love Abbey

Next week, pianist Marc Cary releases For the Love of Abbey, a solo recording of composer Abbey Lincoln’s music.  Cary was Ms. Lincoln’s accompanist for twelve years, and he has an intimate connection to her music. 

“I learned all of these songs directly from Abbey playing the piano,” Cary says on an upcoming episode of WBGO’s The Checkout.  “I used to visit her as she was writing. I would just sit there and watch her play the piano.  She had a certain way that she would voice things.  As a pianist, I had to deprogram myself to relate to that sound.  I realized that’s how she heard the music.  So I figured out a way to accommodate that sound and still embellish as a pianist would - where it was needed.  I think my approach to learning her songs has helped internalize them in me and gave me the ability to express them the way I feel them.”

Let me tell you a few things about regret…There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?
Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via awakeningapril)

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