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Regional Cultural Preview, Jan 13-19, 2020
Ian Chang
Hong Kong native Ian Chang, who now calls New York City home, has been on the cutting edge of experimental electronic music for the past decade. A member of Son Lux and Landlady, Chang has also performed with Joan As Policewoman, Dave Douglas, and Rubblebucket. The composer-drummer collaborates with visual duo Endless Endless to create a mesmerizing world of integrated sound, light, and projection – in which Chang’s electronic sample-based drum kit triggers visuals that respond to each strike of the stick — in Club B10 at MASS MoCA in North Adams on Saturday, January 18 at 8pm.
The Williams College Department of Music presents I/O Fest ’19, it free, annual, four-day festival of new music, beginning next Thursday, Jan. 16, and running through Sunday, Jan. 19 at various venues in Williamstown, including the college’s ’62 Center and the Clark Art Institute.
Singer-songwriter Jesse Harris, best known for writing several of Norah Jones’s greatest hits, brings his newest all-instrumental project, Cosmo, to the Egremont Barn next Fri, Jan 17, at 8pm. Blending folk, soul, Brazilian and rock music, Cosmo is instrumental pop in the classic tradition of Burt Bacharac
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Nerissa Nields
#BlackLivesMatter
We are all learning about the disease of racism, an illness from which all Americans suffer. Since the election of 2016, I and a group of fellow readers and writers have dedicated our reading time to learning as much as we can from our Black brothers and sisters. In the name of helping each other in our attempts to get well, I have compiled the beginnings of a list of books, films, resources, and the curated lists of others which I have found helpful, transformative, enlightening. Please feel free to add your own in the comments below–this list is FAR from exhaustive! Where possible, we have linked to Black-owned bookshops.
BOOKS
Contemporary Civil Rights Issues
Stamped from the Beginningby Ibram X. Kendi
Also, for Young Readers (though it’s so fabulous, I almost prefer it) Stamped, by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
How to be an Antiracistby Ibram X. Kendi
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates–seminal for me.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin–this is so fantastic, and a must-read. It’s really just two long essays. Coates bases his letter to his son in Between the World.. on Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the
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