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Since her last solo album Black Origami - which musically still feels of the present moment, but factually came out in something of a time that land forgot, way back when in the spring of 2017 - the Indiana composer Jlin produced scores for new dances by the choreographers Wayne McGregor and Kyle Abraham, wrote Perspective for the Chicago-based...

For the Uyghurs of the Tarim Basin who continue to raise a voice against the twin spectres of internment and cultural assimilation, muqam remains a key mode of expression, the name for a set of melodic formulas which guide musical improvisation and often take the form of sprawling epic suites. Combining song, dance and instrumental sections, characterised by rhythmic...

"The men who placed themselves above the rest of society through guile, fortuitous outcome of circumstance and sheer brutality have developed two principal institutions to deal with any and all serious disobedience – the prison and institutionalized racism." So wrote the activist and revolutionary theorist George Jackson from the confines of San Quentin Prison, in the manuscript to his second...