An Editorial by Dawoud Kringle
(Originally published in https://dawoudtherenegadesufi.substack.com/. Reprinted with Permission)
Music has always been a major part of any culture and counterculture. It always will be. This phenomenon is hard-wired into all human society. Music possesses the power to change a society’s character. The cultural upheavals of the United States during the 1960s are a perfect example of this.
Photo by Beth O’Brien
Text by Craig Shepard (on Foot Production)
“In the short-run, the market is a voting machine … but in the long- run, the market is a weighing machine.” – Warren Buffett, 1993 Letter to Shareholders.
Special Edition: Busiest Tuesday Ever | July 15, 2014
Greetings, FMC friends! In this quick update, we’re letting you know about two major happenings, adding up to one jam-packed day of music advocacy.
1. FMC to Tell Congress: Protect Artists’ Ability To Reclaim Rights
Over the past year, we’ve been watching closely as the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet has undertaken a systematic examination of US Copyright Law, including many topics important to musicians.
Salif Keita‘s voice is one other mortals can only aspire to. A searing tenor that somehow sounds gritty and glorious all at once, it’s a complicated instrument that transcends language barriers, and with its subtle shadings offers solace and succor, joy and even redemption. It’s not for nothing that Keita is known as the golden voice of Mali.
Given Salif Keita’s incredible talent, it was inevitable that one day music would take him back to his homeland, despite the hardships he once faced there. Recently, that inevitability came to pass. With a 35-year career behind him, Keita returned home to record his latest release, M’Bemba, in Bamako in the studio “Moffou” he had built by the River Niger.
