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Neo-Hoodoo, In Words and Music by W.C. Bamberger

Perfect Sound Forever online music magazine covers Conjure: Music for the Texts of Ishmael Reed: http://www.furious.com/perfect/ishmaelreed.html

Dan Torop's "Skydiving" based on Ishmael Reed poem

Artist Dan Torop's photography exhibition "Skydiving" explores the themes of Ishmael Reed's 1977 poem "Sky Diving". Read more at Art Forum: http://artforum.com/picks/id=26995&view=print

Bill Cosby on Ishmael Reed's Writing Habits

By Barry Beckham: http://barrybeckham.com/?p=53

 

"Do you know Ishmael Reed” he asked.

I shook my head to acknowledge that I knew theCalifornia writer and activist who had founded a small press called I Reed Books.

Newell Harry: 'Untitled (More Mumbo Jumbo: Crackpots ‘n’ Poems for Ishmael Reed)'

'Untitled (More Mumbo Jumbo: Crackpots ‘n’ Poems for Ishmael Reed)', an art show by Newell Harry, on exhibit at Roslyn Oxely9 Gallery: http://streetfashionsydney.blogspot.com/2012/07/oxley9-factory-49-words-colour-fashion.html

L.A. Artist Noah Davis: "Savage Wilds"

"The title Savage Wilds references the controversial 1988 play of the same name by Ishmael Reed, in which two women hosting a game show hire an African American comedian to be hunted live on television.  When rubber bullets are mistakenly replaced with real ammunition, the stakes for questions of spectacle and exploitation rise exponentially.  Davis’s paintings achieve

Jazz Giant David Murray on "Monster Love"

With lyrics by Ishmael Reed, "Monster Love" - originally written for Grammy Award-winning artist Macy Gray - will be featured on the new recording by the BlackMusic Infinity Quartet, as reported in The Louisiana Weekly: http://www.louisianaweekly.com/only-in-new-orleans/

 

Der Spiegel reviews "United States of HooDoo"

German magazine Der Spiegal reviewed "United States of HooDoo", featuring Ishmael Reed: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/kino-darius-james-untersucht-voodoo-erbe-in-united-states-of-hoodoo-a-845591.html

Ishmael Reed featured on David Hammons's "House of the Future"

"Across the intersection from the flagpole is another, even more ambitious project by David Hammons: an impossibly narrow Charleston single house. Situated diagonally on the corner lot and built to be not much wider than a single doorway, it is a pastiche of classic Charleston building techniques, with three types of traditional roofing and five types of siding.

Available for Pre-Order! - Going Too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown

Ishmael Reed's next collection of essays, GOING TOO FAR: ESSAYS ABOUT AMERICA'S NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, is now available for pre-order. See here for more details.

SFJAZZ APPOINTS ISHMAEL REED FIRST SFJAZZ POET LAUREATE

(San Francisco, CA, February 28, 2012) – SFJAZZ, the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast, the presenter of the SFJAZZ Spring Season 2012 running now through June 22, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival, today announced the appointment of Ishmael Reed as the first SFJAZZ Poet Laureate. This appointment will serve to expand and promote the role of poetry and spoken word in jazz and to continue celebrating jazz as a living art form built on a constantly evolving tradition.

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