#afro german

[myblackgirlmagicsyllabus]

Let yourself be loved (2020 album by Joy Denalane)

https://www.wordplaymagazine.com/blog-1/2021/9/4/joy-denalane-10-questions-let-yourself-be-loved-album

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andreazarczynski/2020/09/04/joy-denalanes-us-debut-album-pays-homage-to-retro-soul/

https://www.essence.com/entertainment/joy-denalane-top-of-my-love-video/

#myblackgirlmagicsyllabus #my black girl magic syllabus #joy denalane #albums #let yourself be loved #afro german

[ytilaremehpe-sselhtaed]

#polls #linguistics #languages #Slavic #Afro-Asiatic #ytilaremehpe-sselhtaed #Germanic #Indo-Iranian #Baltic #Romance #Uralic #Sino-Tibetan

[pinkvalkyri]

Weimar Germany is my Roman Empire

#weimar republic #I know it was extremely flawed and chaotic #but god it was so ahead in queer culture and they had begun a burgeoning Afro German community thanks to jazz #and it was succeeded with that bloody dragon #weimar germany

[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!

#german national anthem #Nationalhymne der Bundesrepublik Deutschland #August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben #Bundespolizeiorchesters Hannover #Shereen Adam #german citzenship #deutsche staatsbürgerschaft #Youtube #afrodeutsche #afro-germans #black germany

[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

#pvz: apollo 26 #pvz: arthur #pvz: felician #pvz: naphat #OKAY SO BASICALLY roberta is a zombie hero based off space cadet :]]] #she also made all the superhero costumes for the heroes #arthur is a space cadet based off dieselpunk #felician is a heal browncoat after a promotion.surgeon. and a metalhead #and naphat is a tank commander :] #naphat is also kurt griffith and young-hwan/midnight's roommate (alongside a 5th zombie zinovia) #arthur is also kurt's brother #naphat is thai if you can guess from his name :]]]] #roberta is afro american arthur is irish and felician has mixed polish german and some italian ancestry #phantoms art #pvz #plants vs zombies #pvz oc #pvz gw

[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

#agogo #afrobeat #house music #electronic music #afro jazz #fusion #andrea benini #gary gritness #raoul k #trio toffa #jacob mafuleni #blay ambolley #the sorcerers #healing force project #selma uamasse #david hanke #cultural exchange #cultural appropriation #music review #vinyl record #african music #german music

[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

#i once got screamed at and called a stupid american by a white german for the statement “afro-germans exist” #add white australians to the western european mix they act the same.

[burninglights]

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

#em.txt #amma asante #I thought I was just being petty because she did Seretse Khama and the fight for independence in general #so UNBELIEVABLY dirt in this film #but then she did that stupid movie with the Afro German girl and the *literal SS soldier* and I was like #’nah I was right actually’ #stop using actual people’s struggles and documented atrocities #to make stupid swirler romance films 2KForever #letterboxd #a United Kingdom

[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

#anonymous #jumblr #judaism discourse #like thanks for learning yiddish i guess? but yiddish only exists because we were taken as slaves or otherwise expelled #because an ethnic group that can trace their genetics back to the middle east has no reason for a germanic language to be the primary one #unless something drastic happened to make it that way #i’m not saying yiddish is our primary language btw. i’m just saying that it’s probably the most widely spoken jewish language other than #hebrew and you don’t just get from an afro-asiatic language to a germanic one for no reason

[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

#don’t know why I had that dream I wasn’t even there #steals another dream just like when I had that ginger Afro German IT dude that was another weird one

[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.

#history #nazis #germany #world war 2 #black history #rhineland #world war I #world war II #afro history #afro germans #racial theories #campaign #sterilization #compulsory sterilization

[yu-gi-oh-slavia]

I like the totally arbitrary Egyptian substrate I gave to this language. Gives it a bit of flavour

#there is a small albanian substrate too #but since that is an indo-european language just like the slavic and germanic languages #it's not nearly as worth mentioning #whereas egyptian is semitic #not semitic afro-asiatic #i always forget the macrofamily name lmao #regardless the semitic languages are also afro-asiatic

[maxbernini]

To be honest I cringed way more at Mailin writting the "fundamental rights" on that poster than the sex talk. That and her organizing the "feminist bike pride". The whole feminist plot this season worries me a bit

yep!!!! especially after last season!!!! perhaps if they hadn't gone from mailin doing smth illegal & school-related to explore white privilege (the test answers) and the consequences of her actions after getting caught by teachers via social media in 5/6 to...mailin doing smth illegal & school-related (free weedy break in) and posting it on social media but not getting caught in s7 because there was no underlying plot there and she was encouraged by the friends who'd discouraged her previously and/or would be most impacted...it might mean smth's happening this season with the activism plot. but. given the trailer (you break the rules but are you strong?) + the football gang plot + the fact that she even got the season in the first place!!!! worrying indeed.

#this + the same 5 people who did tiff's season writing s10 where one of the new characters #is a black girl who specifically identifies as a proud afro feminist #the worst two seasons airing simultaneously #ask #anon #german posting

[andnowanowl]

#afro-germans #rhineland bastards #holocaust #i never see anyone cover this

[jumbobraids]

I miss that random period in the 2000s when American rappers would German remixes.. I will never get over Lil kim saying gib's mir richtig ganz egal wo

#African artist have started collabing with afro german artists though which is nice

[munaeem]

Who are Afro Germans? How and why did got rid of its black population?

The Untold History of Afro Germans: Overcoming a Dark Past Germany, known for its rich history and cultural heritage, has a lesser-known chapter often overlooked in the annals of time—the story of Afro Germans. A blend of African and German descent, the Afro German population has faced a tumultuous journey, marked by struggles, triumphs, and a quest for identity. Afro Germans are individuals…

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#Afro Germans #Slavery #Slavery in Europe