Balafon performance in the streets of Conakry, Guinea. ©1963 Emile Snyder Among the unique documents that have floated my way over the years was a manilla folder full of gorgeous black and white photographs my father took in the Ivory Coast, which was developed there, and some of them might have also been […]
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I love Gillian Welch's album "The Harrow and the Harvest" — but it is this song that gives me the chills. Not sure what it is I love best — perhaps it's the way the young woman transforms a haunted past into a reclaimed realm. The night becomes beautiful and evocative, the bones in the
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I was so very sad to learn that Scottish folksinger Jean Redpath has died, August 21, 2014 — here in Arizona at a hospice. She was easily the most powerful voice of my childhood — and her album "Skippin' Barfit Through the Heather" with its achingly beautiful traditional Scottish songs, and her gorgeous voice, slow and
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Here's my favorite band t-shirt from Los Zebras, a Milwaukee Norteño duo. You can buy it at CafePress. It comes in a variety of colors (though note that American Apparel can run on the small side) and is available along with other cool items, like the tote bag, which is also awesome. You can hear
My father Emile Snyder was a professor of African Literature and Languages, specializing in contemporary African Literature written in French and English. He taught at a number of universities, including the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the University of Dar- es Salaam, Tanzania, and Indiana University. In 1964 when he was just embarking on a
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