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Article content Nuits dâAfrique has always been a bit of an underdog â a little festival with a big heart, that year after year presents a vibrant array of sounds from around the globe for an audience every bit as eclectic as its lineup. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Nuits d Afrique fêtes 35 years of shaking up Montreal summers Back to video âWhat I find special is the festival caters to people of different ages, and obviously we have a diverse crowd, culturally,â said Nuits dâAfrique managing director Suzanne Rousseau. âWe get people from Africa, the Caribbean, Japan, Italy. Itâs people who are open to discovering new things. It makes for a really special atmosphere. ....
by Steve Newton on February 13th, 2021 at 2:34 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4 Missy D remembers well the day her love affair with hip-hop started. She was an 11-year-old schoolkid in Zimbabwe, and her class was preparing for the year-end talent show. But they were learning to play the recorder, which isn t the most thrilling instrument in the world. We pretty much sucked, recalls the 29-year-old rapper on the line from her East Van home, and we were all complaining to our music teacher, Hey, you should be teaching us music that s relevant to us. Hip-hop was a big thing at the time, and he somehow changed the curriculum for the next three months in preparation for that big talent show and was like, Okay, you guys wanna study hip-hop, so we re gonna study the history of hip-hop, from deejays to dancing to instrumentals to rapping. ....
Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file . This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Charity Marsh is director of the Interactive Media and Performance Labs and associate professor in creative technologies and interdisciplinary programs at the University of Regina. Mark Campbell is assistant professor of music and culture at the University of Toronto Scarborough. They are the editors of We Still Here: Hip Hop North of the 49th Parallel. “Stolen locations/abusive relations/150 years of celebration/but we still here!” ....