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Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jul 15, 2023

Updated post: now included the Voilaaa remix for "J'ai compris"

Nana Benz du Togo – AGO
https://amf.didiermary.fr/nana-benz-togo-ago/

"The successful French producer Voilaaa transforms the punky song from the Togolese band into a deep-house feminist anthem supported by high-life rhythms, echoing of the early militant and hedonistic years of House music."

#AfroPunk #AfroHouse #Togo #AfricanMusic #Remixed #Electro #LiveMusic

Nana Benz du Togo - AGO - African Music Forum

Nana Benz du Togo - AGO - Organic-electronic feminist songs from West Africa. Voodoo Tradition and Soul aimed for the dance floor.

African Music Forum

Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jul 15, 2023

Africa Center Jul 15, 2023

Russia’s methods of democratic interference in #Africa tend to be coordinated and reinforcing. #Disinformation campaigns are nearly always accompanied by efforts to interfere in #elections to keep Moscow-friendly regimes in power, to support their extended tenures in office beyond constitutionally mandated #termlimits, or to validate #coups.

Click here to track the types and targets of #Russia's anti-democratic influence in Africa:

https://africacenter.org/spotlight/russia-interference-undermine-democracy-africa/

Tracking Russian Interference to Derail Democracy in Africa – Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Systematic efforts by Russia to undercut democracy in Africa have inhibited democratic development in two dozen African countries.

Africa Center for Strategic Studies

Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jul 12, 2023

Je continue la rédaction de mon guide d'utilisation non-officiel de #Mastodon en #Français.

0 - sommaire
https://www.didiermary.fr/sommaire-du-guide-mastodon/
1 - introduction
https://www.didiermary.fr/mastodon-guide-utilisation/
2 - similitudes et différences
https://www.didiermary.fr/mastodon-similitudes-differences/
3 - créer et migrer un compte
https://www.didiermary.fr/mastodon-creer-migrer-compte/
4 - personnaliser son profil Mastodon (part 1)
https://www.didiermary.fr/personnaliser-profil-mastodon/
5 - personnalisation avancée du profil (part 2)
https://www.didiermary.fr/personnalisation-avancee-mastodon/
6 - la timeline Mastodon
https://www.didiermary.fr/timeline-mastodon/
7 - Abonnés et abonnements (bientôt)

Bonus
Ma marque sur Mastodon ?
https://masto.ai/@cybeardjm/110690643108240263

Les billets sont bien sûr tous accessibles sur mon blog principal.

Vous pouvez me soutenir ici :
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/cybeardjm/guide-d-utilisation-mastodon-en-francais-maj

(Started publishing a Mastodon user guide in French - already 6 parts + index - tbc)

Sommaire du Guide Mastodon - Didier J. MARY (blog)

Sommaire du Guide Mastodon - Un guide d'utilisation non-officiel dans la langue de Molière pour les francophones du monde entier.

Didier J. MARY (blog)

Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jul 10, 2023

pixelfed Jul 9, 2023

Mastodon 🤝 Pixelfed

Sign-in in less than 60 seconds, with your Mastodon account.

Joining Pixelfed has never been easier!

Shipping very soon 🚀

Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jun 25, 2023

Turkana is a Dj, producer and model delivering hard-hitting sets that wave the flags of South Sudan, Kenya, and Uganda, the three countries she grew up in.

ANTI-MASS (Boiler Room: Streaming From Isolation - 2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTgPKT0uQsc

Born in 1997, Anita Kevin is a South Sudanese DJ who grew up in a refugee camp in Kakuma, in the Turkana region of Kenya.

She will be in Germany @ Whole Festival - 31/07/2023

#Electro #Hardcore #Africa #NyegeNyege

Turkana | Boiler Room: Streaming From Isolation with ANTI-MASS

YouTube

Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jun 22, 2023

Found this via AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY (as AfricanArchives on :birdsite:)

Did a post on Lindy Hop and Hellzapoppin some time ago on my blog https://www.didiermary.fr/swing-lindy-hop-hellzapoppin/ but there's a lot more info here...

-History Of The Lindy Hop Dance-

On May 21st 1927 the Lindy Hop dance was publicly introduced to the world. The Lindy hop is an African American dance which was born in Harlem, New York City.

On that date, the Lindbergh Spirit of St. Louis airplane completed the first transatlantic flight by air, the Newspaper reported “Lindy Hops the Atlantic” and the dance style adopted the headline. The dance has evolved since then with the jazz music of that time and was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were during its development but is mainly based on jazz, tap, breakaway, and Charleston.

It is frequently described as a jazz dance and is a member of the swing dance family. In its development, the Lindy hop combined elements of both partnered and solo dancing by using the movements and improvisation of African dances along with the formal eight-count structure of European partner dances most clearly illustrated in the Lindy's basic step, the swing-out. In this step's open position, dancers generally connected hand-to-hand; in its closed position, leads and follows are connected as though in an embrace on one side and holding hands on the other.

Lindy hop is sometimes referred to as a street dance, referring to its improvisational and social nature. On March 27, 1932, twelve-year-old Norma Miller did the Lindy hop outside the Savoy Ballroom with her friends for tips. In 1935, 15,000 people danced on Bradhurst Avenue for the second of a dance series held by the Parks Department. Between 147th and 148th street, Harlem "threw itself into the Lindy hop with abandon" as Sugar Hill residents watched from the bluffs along Edgecombe Avenue. There was renewed interest in the dance in the 1980s from American, Swedish, and British dancers and the Lindy hop is now represented by dancers and loosely affiliated grass-roots organizations globally.

Colorized scene from Hellzapoppin' (1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzc7vY9VTnk

Colorized scene from A Day at the Races with the Marx Brothers (1937)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egopcBsOPIU

#BlackMastodon #dancestyle #Dancing #30s #40s #Jazz #Swing

Hellzapoppin, Swing, Lindy Hop - Didier J. MARY (blog)

The choreography (by Frankie Manning) and the dancing in this scene of Hellzapoppin are as near to perfect Lindy Hop as you can see anywhere!

Didier J. MARY (blog)

Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jun 15, 2023

Be Yourself!

#Motivation

Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jun 12, 2023

#Franquin - le "chat fou"

#CaturdayEveryday

Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jun 6, 2023

Nakibembe Embaire Group

"In Nakibembe, a small village in #Uganda's Busoga kingdom (one of the country's four remaining constitutional monarchies), locals have long reserved a communal area for musical performances and social events. In the middle of this space lies a deep pit that serves a single purpose: to amplify the embaire, an immense xylophone made up of between 15 and 25 wooden keys that stretches across the trench. Log xylophones are common throughout East Africa, but the way the music is played by the Basoga - an Eastern Bantu ethnic group - is specific and unique, with its own tuning, dances and supplemental instrumentation. Up to eight players can surround the embaire and play simultaneously, overlaying hypnotic polyrhythms while additional members of the ensemble add vocals or play shakers and drums.

Nakibembe Xylophone Group are one of the last remaining groups that perform with the embaire, and as anyone who's caught their live performances will know, they create a complex and layered wall of sound that's completely transfixing wherever it's presented."

https://nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/track/omukazi-iwe-ongeyengula-nguli-zna-ntyo-bwenkola-2

#NyegeNyegeTapes #AfricanMusic

Omukazi Iwe Ongeyengula Nguli Zna Ntyo Bwenkola, by Nakibembe Embaire Group

from the album Nakibembe Embaire Group

Nyege Nyege Tapes

Dah DJM (open to jobs)Jun 2, 2023

Yeah, of course, that's the ubiquitous phones...

#Future

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