{"id":1718,"date":"2018-09-23T14:29:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T18:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?page_id=1718"},"modified":"2018-09-23T16:00:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T20:00:48","slug":"wild-flowers-cd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/?page_id=1718","title":{"rendered":"WildFlowers CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.dustygroove.com\/images\/products\/s\/shange_ntoz_wildflowe_101b.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"248\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of Wild Flowers<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>As you can tell already, Shange is also famous for her collaborations with artists in multiple media.\u00a0 In 2006, she and tenor sax legend David Murray (World Saxophone Quartet) revisited their 30 years of collaboration and friendship through live performances, some of which are captured in the CD\u00a0\u00a0<em>Wild Flowers<\/em>.\u00a0 Since some of the performances are of poems from\u00a0<em>Nappy Edges<\/em>, this seemed a good week to make them available.\u00a0 If you are interested in Shange and Jazz performance, Farah Griffith&#8217;s excellent essay, &#8220;Learning How to Listen: Ntozake Shange\u2019s Work as Aesthetic Primer&#8221; is a great start.<\/h3>\n<h3>This is the first time I&#8217;ve used the &#8220;playlist&#8221; function!!!\u00a0 Cheers to me!!!<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Wildflowers_SideB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1720 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Wildflowers_SideB-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Wildflowers_SideB-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Wildflowers_SideB-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Wildflowers_SideB-768x770.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Wildflowers_SideB-1022x1024.jpg 1022w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"1118\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/digitalshange\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/01-These.-Kisses-are-Fine.mp3'>These. 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