William Nickerson doesn't have a Wikipedia. Crazy.
14.03.2026 07:03
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William Nickerson doesn't have a Wikipedia. Crazy.
#BAFTA speech by British-Nigerian filmmaker and writer Akinola Davies Jr. who won for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer for “My Father’s Shadow”.
This is what decided they decided to cut.
He deserved to be heard, and we all deserved to hear him.
#BlackSky #FilmSky
That whole time I was living in Los Angeles's "Little New Orleans" 😮 I should have known from Harold & Belle.
"The game's a trap, protect your heart." Praise The Lord
"Avoir la foi c'est bien plus fort que d'avoir de l'argent"
Tonton David, Peuples du Monde
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.
Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
Re Kimberley Crenshaw, great article: www.kolumnmagazine.com/2026/02/05/t...
"La neige etait sale" comme l'écrivait Simenon (pris dans un commentaire du Monde).
Documentary on Roger Dickerson and his New Orleans Concerto (excerpt) interactive.hnoc.org/medley/video...
Most excellent article about New Orleans born composer Courtney Bryan and the secret world of black composer veritenews.org/2024/02/19/c...
The first single from Edmond Dédé's grand opera Morgiane is live ! So dreamy...
open.spotify.com/intl-fr/trac...
Excited. Hopeful.
Agreed! and my take was not directed at you but at the producers and such who are using that label which is a bit of a copout, given how stylized and scripted it is.
Do you remember the future? #EdmondDede #BLKNWS
Another day, another discovery, this time courtesy of Dr White.
Love this feature of Opera Creole. Very creative director. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNht...
In 1898, the composer Will Marion Cook and the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar brought their musical “Clorindy, or the Origin of the Cakewalk” to Broadway, seeking (as Cook wrote) to “eschew white patterns” of Black representation.
“I’m not interested in this at all. It’s the difference between talking about slavery and instead talking about slave culture. One is about what white people did to black people — the other is about what black people did for themselves.”
In the 2016 show “Shuffle Along,” subtitled “The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed,” the playwright and director George C. Wolfe argued … : “It’s like a cure-all, when in doubt, whip out the ‘whitefolks’ and everybody understands everything,”
"Is it possible to see through the conditions that shaped and stymied Black artists to the art itself?"
"Yet the struggle is not itself the achievement."
Josephine Baker "si j'étais blanche" :,( www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuEA...
By the way, you heard it here first lol - shouting in the desert- but Beyonce's next album is going to be a classical offering with opera. Mark my words!
Black Musical theatre, 200 years and running! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The music that STRONGLY inspired Bizet's habanera in Carmen youtu.be/8lqL4G0qHfw?...
Nouvelle notule :
¶ Esthétique de Debussy : dialogues avec Ernest Guiraud
L'occasion de présenter le glorieux Guiraud, de s'interroger sur les représentations dans les histoires de la musique, et d'aborder l'harmonie libre debussyste.
carnetsol.fr/css/index.ph...
