Oh, forgot to post about the Suburban Sista Soundz community music gig we put on at the Metro. It was the public culmination of a couple of years of ICE’s urban music programmes, and it fucking went OFF!
(More photos here.) As I’ve said before, I’m so proud to be associated with this kind of thing — unlike my recent creepy encounter with “affable personas”, these community programmes try to navigate the territories between “training” (i.e. pragmatically leveraging the frameworks of viable-citizen-formation) and the transgressive joys of expression — all via brain-melting hip-hop/R’n’B zones of intensity, and a palpable engagement with uh, reality. For these young people, I’d call it surviving, in style.
[ tags: community, hiphop, rnb, suburbansistas, music, concert ]
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