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Books by Kalamu ya
Salaam
The Magic of JuJu: An Appreciation of the Black Arts
Movement /
360:
A Revolution of Black Poets
Everywhere Is Someplace Else: A Literary Anthology
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From A Bend in the River: 100 New Orleans Poets
Our Music Is No Accident /
What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
My Story My Song (CD)
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Bio-Sketch
Kalamu ya Salaam was born Vallery Ferdinand III on March 24, 1947 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He
attended Carleton College (1964-1969), and Delgado Junior
College from which he earned an A.A. (Associate Arts) degree in
business administration.
Mr.
Salaam is a professional editor/writer, filmmaker,
producer and arts administrator.
He served as a senior partner in the New Orleans
based public relations firm of Bright Moments Inc. (1984 - 1996)
and is a co-founder (with Kysha Brown) of Runagate Multimedia,
Inc. He is the founder and director of NOMMO Literary Society, a
New Orleans-based Black writers workshop. Salaam is also the
founder and moderator of e-Drum, an informational listserv for
Black writers and diverse supporters of literature worldwide.
more
bio
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Life of Kalamu ya Salaam
By Antoine Battle
Kalamu ya Salaam is a professional editor/writer
and arts administrator. He served as the editor of The Black
Collegian magazine for thirteen years. Continuing his work in
journalism, Mr. Salaam worked as the Arts & Entertainment Editor for
The New Orleans Tribune, Modern Jazz Editor for Wavelength,
The New Orleans Music Magazine and a regular contributor to
The Louisiana Weekly newspaper. Mr. Salaam's plays have been widely
anthologized and a 1987/88 production of his BLK LOVE SONG #1 won
a "Best of Fringe" award from the Manchester Evening news in England.
Kalamu ya Salaam is the author of several books of
poetry, including The Blues Merchant (1969), Hofu Ni Kwenu/My
Fear Is For You (1973), Pamoja Tutashina/Together We Will Win
(1974), Ibura (1976), Revolutionary Love (1978), Iron
Flowers (1979), A Nation of Poets (1989). His latest book is
Speak the Truth to the People, an anthology of NOMMO Literary
Society workshop writers co-edited with Kysha N. Brown. He has also done
numerous pamphlets on political issues, particularly the issue of
apartheid. He is the leader of the Wordband, a poetry performance
ensemble. His latest CD is My Story, My Song. He is
co-founder/editor of Runagate Press.
Mr. Salaam is currently the video production
instructor at local public schools. He teaches the concept of NEO-Griot.
NEO-Griot is writing with sound, text, and light.
Source:
XULa
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Travels_with_Charley: New Orleans: Kalamu ya Salaam
John Steinbeck's last
major book, Travels with Charley, recounts his experiences
while on a road trip across America with his poodle,
Charley.
Fifty years later, we
follow in Steinbeck's footsteps to see how those places have
changed or stayed the same. T
his week we're in New
Orleans, where Steinbeck witnessed angry crowds protesting
the desegregation of a public school.—Studio360
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Audio: My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter
Wolfman Washington)
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music website >
http://www.kalamu.com/bol/
writing website >
http://wordup.posterous.com/
daily blog >
http://kalamu.posterous.com
twitter >
http://twitter.com/neogriot
facebook >
http://www.facebook.com/kalamu.salaam
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Treme: Beyond Bourbon Street (HBO)
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Table of
Contents
Kalamu
Bio / Kalamu Neo-Griot /
Kalamu ya Salaam Biblio
Kalamu ya
Salaam: A Primary Bibliography
(in Progress)
by
Jerry W. Ward Jr.
Poetry
reading by Kalamu ya Salaam
Furious Flower 1994 Conference
James Madison University
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for Life: My Story, My Song (Table)
Poems
2
SISTERS
expected
you yesterday
no
entrance
those
good things there be that are
madpoet
Leader
Love
And
Black women!
NAMES,
PLACES, US
The
Blues
HIWAY
BLUES
NTOZAKE
SHANGE
LAMENT
INSPIRATION
TOP 40
IBURA/COME
GET TO THIS
all
that's black ain't brother
Diapers
and Dishes
Tomorrows'
Toussaints
Beyond
The Boundaries
PA
FERDINAND
...AND
RAISE BEAUTY TO ANOTHER
LEVEL OF SWEETNESS
haiku
#7
THE
CALL OF THE WILD
a
moment in a mississippi juke joint
Tasty
Knees
haiku #79
haiku
#37
haiku
#123
haiku
#48
haiku
#112
haiku
#58
The
Meaning Of Life
haiku
#125
Earth
Day
For
my wife when I do that thing
For my child when I do
that thing
Whi/te Boy Gone to the Moon *
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of Life: A Conversation about Black Music
(Music Blog)
The Best of
the Staple Singers, as BAM Artis
Bob Marley:
The Black Survivors The
Divine Music of Alice Coltrane
From Mozart to Headhunters (Herbie
Hancock)
Gil
Scott-Heron & His Music
Hugh Masekela: Out of the
Hell of Apartheid
James
Brown -- Messing with the Blues
Modern Jazz Quartet
Nina Simone: The
Emotional Depths of the Spirit World
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi: John Hurt. Fred
McDowell
Ornette Coleman: The Shape of
Jazz to Come
Parliament Funkadelic—P-Funk
Police Brutality and Rappers
Young, Gifted, and Black (Weldon
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Essays
ACTION all out to stop the war
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Peace Yes War No
Black Arts
Movement (literary history)
Black Stacey: Saul Williams
Clapping
On Two and Four
Do Right Women
(musical history)
Guarding the Flame of
Life The Funeral of
Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr.
Is A Sonnet More Than Fourteen Lines
The Importance of an African
Centered Education
It’s Hard
James Baldwin: The Preacher Poet
Let's Have Some Fun
Liberated Zones in Cyberspace
On Writing Haiku
Our Women Keep Our
Skies From Falling (Book)
Tarzan Can Not Return to Africa,
But I Can -- PanaFest 1994
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That
Old Black Magic (on black writing)
Tribute to Douglass Redd: Essay and Poem
TWO TRAINS RUNNING BLACK POETRY 1965-2000: What Is Black Poetry
(literary history)
W.E.B. Du Bois:More
Man Than Meets the Eye
What
Is Life? (Book)
What Is Life: Reclaiming the Black Blues Self
What
Renaissance?
What To Do With The Negroes?
when a man loves a
woman (29 April 2010)
WORDS:
A Neo-Griot Manifesto
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I
(Table) Interview II
What Is Life Nia Interview III
Digital
Technology & Telling Our Story
Interview IV
Never
Too Much The
Sensitive Luther Vandross
An
Interview With Luther Ronzoni Vandross, Jr.
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Kalamu ya Salaam
Interview Table Play
Malcolm My Son
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Black Poetry Text & Sound
Two
Trains Running: Black Poetry 1965-2000
(notes towards a discussion & dialogue)
By Kalamu ya Salaam
What is poetry? That is not a rhetorical question.
What it is we are discussing? I define poetry as "stylized
language." Within the context of what is generally called
literature, I further specify that poetry is language stylized to have
an emotional impact on its audience. Within the world of
English-language poetry, the chief methods of stylization are: 1. meter
and/or rhythm 2. the specific use of sound usually in terms of
a. rhyme
b. assonance/consonance c. alliteration d. onomatopoeia 3. figurative
language, chiefly simile and metaphor.
The canonical standards for contemporary American
poetry have their beginnings in England with Shakespeare and their most
important developments in the modernist movement of the 1920s (T.S.
Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, e.e. cummings and William Carlos
Williams). The fountain heads of contemporary American poetry are
considered to be Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
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Poems
4 Movements / 12 Moments
Both Water & Bridges
Bush Mama
Iron
Flowers
I Stare Into The Air
The Last Redd Light!
Lonely Woman
MAAFA:
Remembrance & Renewal
Murder of Amilca Cabral
New Poems (2010)
Nia: Haiku,
Sonnets, Sun Songs (Table)
Queen
Nzinga's Army
You'll
Never See My Byline in the Times-Picayune
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Infamous Algiers 7 police brutality
case of 1980 has parallels to today
Thirty years ago this
week, a single gunshot changed New Orleans' relationship
with its police force. A young, white cop, Gregory Neupert,
took a fatal bullet to the neck. In short order, four black
citizens were killed in a hail of police gunfire. The chief
of police was eventually forced out amid a racially tinged
uproar. The mayor felt the wrath of an outraged citizenry.
The violent police
response to Neupert's killing led to the federal indictment
of seven officers in one of the earliest, wide-ranging civil
rights probes of the New Orleans Police Department. Three of
the so-called "Algiers Seven" were eventually convicted in
an exhaustive trial that relied on the testimony of a fellow
cop who broke ranks. Though four citizens were dead, the
conviction centered on the beating and abuse of other
citizens, but not on the killings.
This week, another dark
chapter in the history of the NOPD begins, one with haunting
parallels to the Neupert case. Starting Monday, a new group
of officers will be tried in federal court for numerous
alleged civil rights violations in Algiers. Prosecutors say
that in the days after Hurricane
Katrina, one officer shot Henry
Glover, other officers burnt his body to bits of bones
and beat his companions, and others helped cover the whole
matter up.—NOLA
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photo above right—The
six demonstrators who occupied Mayor Ernest Morial's office for three
days in June, 1981, march with fists raised as they leave New Orleans
City Hall. From left are:
Kalamu ya Salaam , Macio Duncan, Cynthia Riley,
Daniel Johnikin and Martin Lefstein. The sixth protester is out of view
inside the doorway. The signs around their necks bear the names of the
people killed in the Algiers 7 shootings
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Reports
All
Hands on Deck
(Kalamu)
american studies
association conference houston, 15 november
2002
at Clemson
at
MIT
Bowery
Poetry Club Benefit
evacuating
new orleans new orleans, 15 September 2004
Generations at
Thanksgiving
gwendolyn
brooks writers conference (Chicago
Report, October 23-26 2002)
Hurricane
Library Relief (Kalamu)
I Am
Ashamed Of Myself
in Dallas
in houston
It's Hard: Post
Katrina New Orleans
(19 June 2006)
I WANT TO
BUT I DON'T
(Kalamu)
in
the hot house of black poetry (Harrisonburg,
VA; 22 Sept. 2004)
kalamu
in the carolinas (1 - 2
November 2002)
Kalamu
in Baltimore (Reports
& Reviews; 4 November 2005)
Kalamu Needs Work
kalamu
on the road 9 oct 2005
Kalamu
Travel Update
Kalamu
Update ("I'm in Nashville")
kalamu
visits home
kalamu
update 30 sept 2005
Listen
to the People Update
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Kalamu ya Salaam
Reports:
Post-Katrina New Orleans
It's Hard
I'm Crazy
Cracking Up
Stephanie
Take Deep
Breaths
Spirits in
the Dark
Katrina
& Kalamu
Listen
To The People (Kalamu; 7 September 2005)
LISTEN
TO THE PEOPLE: The Neo-Griot New Orleans Project (15
September 2005)
lorenzo
thomas panel
houston, 15 november
2002
mama
what's an afro geek?
(5 May 2004)
mama what2s an afro geek (2)
Neo-Griot Workshop (Kalamu)
quick notes from the field
(Kalamu)
The
Storyteller of New Orleans by Elizabeth
D.
Tenderloin
Book Fair Report (1/30/04
-- 1/31/04)
where
in the world is kalamu
zora smiles--kalamu at zora neale
hurston festival (part 2 of 2)
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Short Stories
Kalamu's Feminist Erotica
(kalamu notes)
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The
African World
After Hours Contents After Hours Contributors
Simmons
Review After Hours Contributors
Introduction
to After Hours Amilcar
Cabral Bio
The Art of Tom Dent
The Black Joan
of Arc Black Tech
Review
Feminism,
Black Erotica & Revolutionary Love Essay by Rudolph Lewis
Island
Cabral
Sketch
Court Order Can't Make Races Mix Guest Poets
Island Literary
New Orleans
Poetic
Journey
The
Quotable Cabral
Responses
to Feminism, Black Erotica, & Revolutionary Love
Southern Journey
The State of Black Erotica The Tenderloin Book
Fair Tom Dent Bio
Tom Dent Speaks
Zora
Neale Hurston Chronology
zora smiles
zora smiles 2
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Track List
1. Congo Square (9:01)
2. My Story, My Song (20:50)
3. Danny Banjo (4:32)
4. Miles Davis (10:26)
5. Hard News For Hip Harry (5:03)
6. Unfinished Blues (4:13)
7. Rainbows Come After The Rain (2:21)/Negroidal Noise
(15:53)
8. Intro (3:59)
9. The Whole History (3:14)
10. Negroidal Noise (5:39)
11. Waving At Ra (1:40)
12. Landing (1:21)
13. Good Luck (:04) |
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
By David Graeber
Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it. Debt: The First 5,000 Years is a fascinating chronicle of this little known history—as well as how it has defined human history, and what it means for the credit crisis of the present day and the future of our economy. Economist Glenn Loury /Criminalizing a Race
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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