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A Love Song Song for Latasha
Director: Sophia Nahli Allison
Film Screening/Online
Netflix's A Love Song for Latasha is a short film about a tragically short life. Sophia Nahli Allison directed this lightly experimental remembrance of Latasha Harlins, the 15-year-old Black girl who was murdered in 1991 by a convenience store owner who accused her of stealing a bottle of orange juice. The injustice surrounding the shooting death of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles store became a flashpoint for the city’s 1992 civil uprising. 2019. 19 min
Music Performance
A Night of Tuareg Music from Niger
Les Filles de Illighadad
MCC Theater
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Fatou Seidi Ghali, lead vocalist and performer of Les Filles de Illighadad is one of the only Tuareg female guitarists in Niger. Sneaking away with her older brother’s guitar, she taught herself to play. While Fatou’s role as the first female Tuareg guitarist is groundbreaking, it is just as interesting for her musical direction. In a place where gender norms have created two divergent musics, Fatou and Les Filles are reasserting the role of tende in Tuareg guitar. In lieu of the djembe or the drum kit, so popular in contemporary Tuareg rock bands, Les Filles de Illighadad incorporates the traditional drum and the pounding calabash, half-buried in water.
Co-sponsored by KCSB-FM and Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM)
Music Performance
A Night of Uyghur Music
Erkin Abdulla
Online
Erkin Abdulla is a Uyghur musician, his music style is Contemporary Folk, Uyghur pop and Flamenco. With his unique voice and superb guitar skills, his music has various elements. Erkin combines Uyghur folk and modern music styles to create a cross-cultural and borderless global music style.
As an Uyghur musician, Erkin focuses on the development of the Uyghur ethnic traditional music heritage. He has fully learned the ancient Uyghur Muqam – Dolan’s artistic essence, and created many songs with Uyghur ancient and modern elements, like “The Eagle of Tengri Tagh”, “The Thousand Caves.” He consolidated, produced, and performed the adaptations for the Pamir ethnic folk rhythms which are becoming extinct in recent years. He always dedicates his music works to enrich the Uyghur culture and make the music world more colorful.
