Postmambo Studies

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Immmersive music seminars involving travel, led by Ned Sublette. No website, DM for details. Reposts appreciated.

A view of the Bahia de Todos os Santos.
A near-full moon over Seventh Avenue South, looking south with the Village Vanguard in the foreground.
Sunset with pastel pink and dark grey-blue clouds
A poster, dark blue and decorated with Kongo firma, for an event called Asere Social Club, to take place at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach September 12. Presenters include Cortadito, Irawo Osa, Brenda Navarette [chef’s kiss], DJ Le Spam, Adrian Castro, Román Díaz, the great Matanzas dancer Bárbaro Ramos, Marisol Blanco, and Dr. Ivor Miller.
A Google map with numerous flags
A realtor’s sign on Esplanade in New Orleans says, “The music drew you here, this condo might get you to stay.”
A sign saying “Musician Load In Zone”
Street party in New Orleans, with a sousaphone bell prominently visible.
Outdoors at night, Demond Melancon displays the front panel of his orange feather suit with elaborate beadwork depicting the Amistad takeover. Melancon uses small-gauge beads, making the sewing more labor-intensive but resulting in a higher-resolution image.
Bird in a tree on an island.
The sun rises over the historic port of Veracruz.
Two masked wrestlers at a 45-degree angle to the ground on their way to a fall at Arena México, an 18,000 wrestling temple in Mexico City.
Pointillistic color sign three stories high depicting in lights three women shouting ‘Es tiempo de mujeres’ (it’s the time of women.) Each woman is holding a flower.
A marcher holds a sign saying, “Las feministas hacen disturbios sin quitar vidas. El machismo quita vidas sin causar disturbios.”(Feminists cause disturbances without taking lives. Machismo takes lives without causing disturbances.”)
A marcher holds a sign saying “Somos las nietas de las brujas que no pudieron quemar”(We are the granddaughters of the witches they couldn’t burn).
Two of perhaps hundreds of thousands of signs held up by marchers: “Mi miedo se volvió mi fuerza” (My fear turned into my strength) and “A mi abusador no le preguntaron como hiba vestido” (They didn’t ask my abuser how he was dressed).
A 4-story-high image in lights in front of building windows of a woman with her fist raised and her open mouth shouting, and a red flower with green leaves to her left. It’s daylight so only the outline is visible.
A woman holds up a sign that says “Dónde están las mujeres de Dilly?”
Greg Banks’s QR code
Greg Banks, tall, young and immaculately dressed and accessorized. Playing a blue Fender-type guitar with a pedal board activated with pointy-tip yellow leather shoes. On the subway platform, with his QR code posted at his side.
Profile view of a tiny segment of a massive night time concert public, including children mounted on parents’ shoulders. Giant cranes of the Veracruz container port are in the background.
Cover of the album Freddy (Fredesvinda Garcia), Puchito 1960, featuring the singer in mid-emotion, clutching a microphone in front of red curtains.
cover of Labelle's Nightbirds album (1974) .
The Brazilian movement slogan quoted by Jumaane Williams in his inauguration address, in its most familiar visualization, hand-drawn in white on a black background: two hands clasping in front of a flower with petals and root both, and the words, "NINGUÉM SOLTA A MÃO DE NINGUÉM."
A matrix of camel tracks in the fine Sahara sand seen in the first golden light of morning.
Marrakech’s Koutouba mosque at night under a half moon
A mural depicting a jeweled fibula (a brooch that holds toga-like clothes together) with a triangular top and a pin pointing down inside a circular catch, surrounded by floating elements in red of the alphabet called Tifinaght against a multicolored background in which yellow dominates.
A camel caravan of Postmamboists stops to appreciate a magnificent sunrise in the dunes of Erg Chebbi, in Merzouga, Morocco. In the foreground the fine-grained sand is covered with camel tracks.
Mountains in the distance. The sun has set. Only shades of blue and black.