Paul Serralheiro

You see, the story people don’t realize is, we didn’t know we were making history.

Jazz Amnesty Sound System: voices from the past speaking today’s language

The history of music is all about borrowing and building on the work of predecessors, whether it be Griots keeping old stories alive and telling the stories of their time, or Johann Sebastian Bach traveling to hear Buxtehude’s […]

Book Review

Charlotte Hussey: Reclaiming Narratives in Glossing the Spoils

Paul Serralheiro

Hussey, Charlotte. Glossing the Spoils. Awen Publications: Stroud, England, 2017 (2nd edition), 72 pages. Montréal poet and scholar Charlotte Hussey’s most recent book of poetry, published by an Irish imprint, was sparked by a quest for reconnection to the […]

Music

Togetherness: Post-colonial appropriation or welcome celebration of South African jazz?

Paul Serralheiro

CD Review Cultures around the world provide a rich heritage to draw from for practicing contemporary artists, but it’s always a thorny issue when a non-native draws on stylistic features of the practices of another culture, as care needs to […]