#afro german

[hey-hey-j]

No te asustes de decirme la verdad / eso nunca puede estar así tan mal

Yo también tengo secretos para darte / y que sepas que ya no me sirven más

Hay tantos caminos por andar....

"but J you can't make every song about Flickory" watch me :)

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[yourdailyqueer]

Suzette Mayr

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1967

Ethnicity: German, Afro Caribbean

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Writer

[pinkvalkyri]

Weimar Germany is my Roman Empire

[randomberlinchick]

A Few Thoughts on National Identity

I spent a good chunk of my adult life researching the concept of national identity. I was particularly interested in how German national identity is manifested in various forms of media, such as film and music. So I suppose it was with a sense of having come full circle, that I found myself sitting in a room with about 15 other people yesterday taking the German citizenship test.* I think all of that needs to be properly unpacked, but not just yet.

For the moment, here is my musical offering for the day. Suffice it to say that her performance of the German national anthem gives me goosebumps. Simply beautiful!

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit für das deutsche Vaterland! Danach lasst uns alle streben brüderlich mit Herz und Hand! Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit sind des Glückes Unterpfand: |: Blüh im Glanze dieses Glückes, blühe, deutsches Vaterland! :|

*I'll get the results in about 8 weeks . . . thanks German bureaucracy!

[talasta]

You ever think about how the QSMP had like 43 members from 12 different countries and there wasn't a single Black person in it. Like you had plenty of content creators that were not white, but no one that was Black. And speaking as a Brazilian, it was specially ridiculous with the Brazilian ccs chosen, given we are a Black-majority country and have the largest Black population outside of Africa, and meanwhile almost all of the Brazilian content creators were white.

[morangoowada]

My mom was talking about a person in our family and she mentioned that this person's dad was a German. Wtf every day I learn more about the confusing mix of my family 😭

[undeadvinyls]

i know yall voted for juveniles' parents lineup next but rlly wanted to post my gw babes :']

from L to R: Apollo 26/Roberta, Arthur, Felician, Naphat

[mywifeleftme]

340: Various Artists // Two Tribes

Two Tribes Various Artists 2019, Agogo (Bandcamp)

A double-LP mixtape/compilation from Hannover electronic label Agogo Records, Two Tribes “makes an effort to give insight in how [sic] musicians living in Europe today incorporate and transfer musical traditions particularly from the African continent into their oeuvre” (per the liner notes). Ostensibly, everyone here is either a musician living in Europe with African roots of some kind, or is a European musician collaborating with Africans, though in some cases what you get is just a Euro DJ using a few “tribal” sounding drum stems.

I had a lot of fun listening to the most ‘70s sounding funk stuff here and trying to guess how white the musicians were, but I was underprepared for the intensity of unpasteurized Funky Continental Guyness I was exposed to. Winners included guitarist Petri Kautto of Finnish-Beninese Afro-jazz combo Trio Toffa (pretty good), who strongly resembles Bill Nighy wearing a bucket hat with fake dreads attached to it, and Berlin’s slavishly authentic Afro-funk group Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers, who look like the S-Bahn Bloodhound Gang.

Petri Kauto of Trio Toffa

Onom Agemo and the Disco Jumpers

The compilation has what strikes me as a downright quaint (and very German) attitude towards the notion of cultural exchange that runs the risk of being pilloried for appropriation, but I’m sympathetic to it. Certainly, a collaboration like that between Zimbabwean mbira player Jacob Mafuleni and French DJ Gary Gritness that is neither explicitly “African” or “European” is by nature a more truly cross-cultural enterprise than Onom Agemo’s reverent homage or German DJ Elias “Agogo” Foerster’s vaguely Books-ish chops of African beat and vocal samples, but whatever. Influence is impossible to strictly regulate, and I don’t know that it’s even desirable to. White guys nerding out and riffing on the music of the cultures their governments currently oppress isn’t a problem—that their governments are oppressing those cultures, and that the scenes they operate within often have the taint of trickled down racism despite their utopian values, is. One hopes that Agogo and these musicians are cognizant of these challenges, even as they radiate a genuine and laudable affection for African music.

It’s worth noting that, while the European club sounds represented range from ‘90s style techno and 2-step to more modern forms of minimal house and bass music, the African face of the coin is almost exclusively defined by the funky ‘70s and ‘80s sounds that drive record collectors into quasi-sexual spasms. Being one of those guys, I don’t mind it aesthetically, but it’s interesting that the most contemporary-sounding piece is the 15-minute minimal house track “Just in a Moment to Find a Way to Sun Day” by Ivorian-born Hamburg DJ Raoul K. The centrepiece of K’s track sounds to me like a synthesized mbira, but he doesn’t feel the need to flag his music as African—perhaps because he actually is a young guy of African descent. Instead, he puts on a master class in using simple shifts in rhythm and dynamics to keep a room vibing in near perpetuity.

Anyway, as a mix, Two Tribes contains a lot of fine music and flows nicely. I dig Andrea Benini’s Francis Bebey-esque “Jawa” and the K track in particular, but nothing aside from Selma Uamusse’s anime-sounding “Mozambique (Ao Sul Do Mundo)” actively irks me. I’ve listened to Two Tribes a lot more than many other records in my collection that dig deeper, or make more powerful statements, because in the end, I just like the way it sounds.

340/365

[leyfin]

white western europeans sniffing their nose assuming anyone talking about racism must be a mongrel american too stupid to understand the delicate nuances of their own forms of race relations (muderous rage when they acknowledge the existence of brown people in their countries) are my least favorite type of guy online

[burninglights]

I’m not saying I have a grudge against Amma Asante for making the world’s most milquetoast swirler romances. HOWEVER.

[ripley-ryan]

eyyyy you’ve noticed how many people are weird about converting too!! I got massacred for it when I mentioned it in another blog but like. if you want to convert then actually do something about it and work with a rabbi? there’s way too many people on here who are “interested in Judaism” or “planning on converting” and like that doesn’t make you special. you’re still a goy and you can still be massively antisemitic, you just think you have a “special connection” when you don’t. as a convert those people make me so upset, I never claimed Judaism before it was mine and I actually understood things, why can’t they just be quiet until they do the same

THANK YOU anon. literally i have no issue with converts it’s just that, as previously stated, some of you on here have GOT to be lying.

like saying you’re converting and learning yiddish and turning around and being anti-zionist isn’t necessarily antisemitic, but sometimes it’s pretty clear when you’re doing all this to go “as a jew…” and don’t really have an interest in judaism other than as a political tool.

this isn’t directed at you anon obviously because this is like a general you type of situation here. but like once again some of you guys have got to be lying about who’s converting around here because there cannot be that many of you coming in here with very little respect to a mostly closed religion

[wittyno]

Black people did not fair well in Nazi Germany. Here is a post by the African American Intellectual History Society on the topic. Specifically, the erasure of the Afro-German experience under the Nazis.

Squalid confession: I did have a major objection, on the basis of race, to one casting decision in the Rocky Horror 40th anniversary special. “Doctor VON Scott!” is a pretty damned obvious Operation Paperclip joke; how the expletive deleted is that supposed to work with Ben Vereen? (The Headscratchers section of TV Tropes has yet to address the subject.)

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[sixthwater]

Had a weirdly vivid dream of two-ish dudes I’ve never seen before in my life but loved their dancing skills and one of their thighs was like freakishly toned mf did Not skip leg day

[bootyandgeekeries]

Rhinelander was a derogatory term used in Nazi Germany to describe Afro-Germans, believed fathered by French Army personnel of African descent who were stationed in the Rhineland during its occupation by France after World War I. There is evidence that other Afro-Germans, born from unions between German men and African women in former German colonies in Africa, were also referred to as Rheinlandbastarde.

After 1933, under Nazi racial theories, Afro-Germans deemed to be Rheinlandbastarde were persecuted. They were rounded up in a campaign of compulsory sterilization.

[aitiuilghrain]