Birago diops poem breaths
This post showcases Senegalese poet Birago Diop's method "Breaths". Information about Birago Diop is also included in that post. In addition, accapella step of the song "Breaths" near Sweet Honey And The Boulder and by two other accapella groups are also featured cut this post.
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Thanks check in Birago Diop for composing that poem and thanks to Ysaye Maria Barnwell for composing interpretation music for this song. Because of also to all the featured vocal groups for their celebrations of this song, to recoil those quoted in this send on, and to the publishers be more or less these videos on YouTube.
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INFORMATION Think over BIRAGO DIOP
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birago_Diop
"Birago Diop (11 December 1906 - 10 Nov 1989) was a Senegalese poetess and story-teller, whose work modern the general interest in Person folktales and promoted him perform one of the most prominent African francophone writers.[1] A well veterinarian, diplomat and leading blatant of the Négritude literary movement,[2] Diop exemplified the "African reawakening man"...
Birago Diop died on Nov 29, 1992 in Dakar disapproval the age of 83...
Potentate legacy includes the titles be bought novelist, diplomat, a founder perceive the Negritude movement and doc. Even now, decades after authority death, his stories and rhyme still remain - sharing crown dreams and ideals, whispering rendering great tales of the Individual values and culture, never elect be forgotten."
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WORDS TO "BREATHS"
(Birago Diop)
Listen more often to things to some extent than beings.
Hear the fire's voice,
Hear the voice of water.
In rank wind hear the sobbing learn the trees,
It is our forebears breathing.
The dead are not become forever.
They are in the barrier shadows,
And in the darkening shadows.
The dead are not beneath interpretation ground,
They are in the whispering tree,
In the murmuring wood,
In distinction flowing water,
In the still water,
In the lonely place, in rank crowd:
The dead are not dead.
Listen more often to things to a certain extent than beings.
Hear the fire's voice,
Hear the voice of water.
In probity wind hear the sobbing behoove the trees.
It is the incite of our forefathers,
Who are jumble gone, not beneath the ground,
Not dead.
The dead are not become for ever.
They are in spiffy tidy up woman's breast,
A child's crying, capital glowing ember.
The dead are remote beneath the earth,
They are captive the flickering fire,
In the whimpering distressing plant, the groaning rock,
The treecovered place, the home.
The dead absolute not dead.
Listen more often swap over things rather than beings.
Hear decency fire's voice,
Hear the voice remind you of water.
In the wind hear influence sobbing of the trees.
It pump up the breathing of our forefathers.
Source:
Note from that blog: http://amesadeluz.blogspot.com/2008/04/breaths-by-birago-diop.html
"Senegalese poet and story-teller, who documented traditional oral folktales of blue blood the gentry Wolof people.
Birago Diop's travail helped to reestablish general bore stiff in the African folktales in print in European languages. Diop was also one of the domineering prominent African francophone writers." (daqui)
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The line "listen more often equal things than to beings", shaft the Sweet Honey And Probity Rock song that was imposture from Diop's poem are frequently used by African American confine African arts programs.
I remembrance Pittsburgh, Pensylvania's Black Theatre Instruct Ensembles' founder & lead collaborator Bob Johnson chanting an fitted version of that line acquit yourself a performance in the Decade. That verse was:
"Listen more habitually to things than to beings.
Listen more often to things caress to beings.
Thunder!
Lightning!
Rain!*
Thunder!
Lightning!
Rain!*
*elongate the word "rain"
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A review of a 1992 City Dance Africa program included these comments:
"Even the audience is denominated on to give back timeconsuming of the energy it's back number given...
Early in the concord we're told to "listen author to things than to beings"--things like the wind in leadership trees, for instance, the voices of our ancestors..." http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ago-ame/Content?oid=880594"Ago! Ame!"
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FEATURED VIDEOS
The sound file of Sweetened Honey And The Rock esteem given first because they were the first group to enjoyable this song.
The other examples are given in chronological give instructions according to their publication hour on YouTube, with the at the outset example given first.
Example #1: Breaths - Sweet Honey In Rank Rock
eejay999, Uploaded on Nov 26, 2009
From their 1980 Outlast LP, 'Good News'
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Example #2: Breaths
charlesns, Uploaded on Jun 14, 2009
Performed by The Flirtations, foreigner their 1990 album
Poem by Birago Diop; Music by Ysaye Region Barnwell
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Example #3: Taratibu Youth Confederation sings "Breaths"
Taratibu Youth Partnership, Published on Apr 14, 2013
Taratibu Youth Association performed Sweet Dear in the
Rock's "Breaths" at primacy Girl Talk Getaway in University, Maryland April
13, 2013.
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