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...effect on the soundtrack of his film Broken Flowers. Will this new series of concerts heralds a Buena Vista Social Club kind of renaissance for Ethiopian music? Perhaps. But just as important, says Falceto, is that the music finds an audience in its homeland and among the country's diaspora communities. "Ethiopiques is a bridge between the generations," he says. "This was their parents' music - and it's groovy...
...nominee. Most Tibetans rejected Beijing's choice, and many worried that the Karmapa might suffer a similar fate. But in 1999, the 14-year-old, in disguise, clambered out of a monastery window and was spirited on foot and by horseback and helicopter to India, becoming the Tibetan diaspora's teen hero in the process. A nervous Indian government refused to let him travel abroad for eight years...
...peaceful coexistence for Palestinians and Israelis. I believe there are, but not until there is meaningful resolution on the issues of the dispossession of Palestinian property and the dislocation of Palestinians after independence. I am also worried that they have no right of return, unlike the Jews of the Diaspora. Much Arab property has been despoiled and expropriated, and more than 500 Arab villages have been destroyed. This is one of the most significant barriers to the realization of a two-state negotiated solution. Saber Ahmed Jazbhay, DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA...
...been a topic of concern among worried mothers and professors of popular culture alike, who call for the genre to be reformed. But controversial values are not the trademark of hip-hop generally. Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting, the director of Vanderbilt’s program in African American and Diaspora Studies, agrees that though misogynistic and violent messages are often heard through public outlets, hip-hop’s full creative spectrum is concealed by major record labels and commercial radio. There has been a widespread struggle to reconcile the artistic expression of hip-hop’s participants with...
...what it means to be American shifts. And as much as the mainstream changes immigrants, immigrants change the mainstream. That’s the point I’m trying to make.THC: So that’s your main message. JL: Yeah, and also to talk about the Chinese diaspora without being boring. If I said, “Wow, there are a lot of Chinese people living in Singapore because there were big famines and floods in the Fujen Province in the early 1800s,” people are like, “Whatever...