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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Marcus Garvey interview, Mr. Garvey speaks about his trial and persecution
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He founded the Black Star Line, part of the Back-to-Africa movement, which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their ancestral lands.
Prior to the twentieth century, leaders such as Prince Hall, Martin Delany, Edward Wilmot Blyden, and Henry Highland Garnet advocated the involvement of the African diaspora in African affairs. Garvey was unique in advancing a Pan-African philosophy to inspire a global mass movement and economic empowerment focusing on Africa known as Garveyism. Promoted by the UNIA as a movement of African Redemption, Garveyism would eventually inspire others, ranging from the Nation of Islam to the Rastafari movement (which proclaims Garvey as a prophet). The intent of the movement was for those of African ancestry to "redeem" Africa and for the European colonial powers to leave it. His essential ideas about Africa were stated in an editorial in the Negro World titled "African Fundamentalism" where he wrote:
"Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… to let us hold together under all climes and in every country…"
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New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century.
"A searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garvey's short but consequential life."
--Steve Hahn, The New Republic
"The story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early '20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant.... Grant's book is not all politics, ideology, money and lawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history.... Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated."
--New York Times Book Review
"Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… to let us hold together under all climes and in every country…"
Read more
New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century.
"A searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garvey's short but consequential life."
--Steve Hahn, The New Republic
"The story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early '20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant.... Grant's book is not all politics, ideology, money and lawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history.... Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated."
--New York Times Book Review
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
How to Start a Record Label: “Hip Hop Industry Secrets Revealed”
How to Start a
Record Label: “Hip Hop Industry Secrets Revealed”
Putting out your
own records and starting your own record label sounds very scary and
overwhelming. No matter how big your
plans or what kind of goals you have,
no one is going
to start a record label and become as big as Artista Records overnight. But starting
your own record label doesn’t have to be scary and impossible.
By following the process of starting your own
record label, step by step, you can and will
succeed. In every industry, especially
in the music and entertainment industries, there is a
formula that must be followed. But to
follow the steps in order to start your own record
label, you need to know what those steps are.
There are two
reasons why you may choose to put out your own records: to make money, and/or to
get the attention of a major record label in the future. When the major record labels
ignore you, you have very limited options.
Putting out records on your own, under your
own label, is a good idea because you can call the shots and earn a lot more from your
music. Under your own label, you’ll get
a lot more freedom and more direct profit
than working for a large, corporate music label. If you don’t own your own label, you’re
just a sharecropper.
It is a lot of
work, but by starting out slowly you’ll eventually gain momentum and running your
record label will become second nature.
The first step is to create a clear, concise
plan that you can follow. If you don’t
know where you’re going with your label, how can
you get anything done at all? Know your
goals, know what you want to get done, and
decide how you’re going to do it – and then you have a plan for success.
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