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Archive Find: Black music / Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis

by Danielle 1 Comment

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My archive find is from Pacifica Radio Archives. Joan Thornell interviews Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis for her “Another Perspective” series about the development of black music. Shange and Davis talk about Stevie Wonder, jazz, the differences between poetry and music and how each exists within a gendered space. The interview was produced at WPFW, Washington, DC in 1977.

Archive Find 1: Jazz Poetry

by Amanda 1 Comment

While visiting Barnard’s Archive this past week, I happened across a jazz poem by a contributor to “Phat Mama”. The poem, entitled me & miles, contributed by Thulani Davis (formerly Barbara Davis) talks about the way Miles Davis’ music influenced the narrator beginning as early as childhood– “when i was a childhood/then and oh yeah now/ me and miles/ had a/ real/ thing.”