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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelSfw, Smithsonian Folkways
UPC0093070971417
eBay Product ID (ePID)24061941263
Product Key Features
Release Year2023
FormatRecord
GenreComedy
ArtistFabio, Sarah Webster
Release TitleJujus/Alchemy of the Blues: Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio
Dimensions
Item Height0.18 in
Item Weight0.75 lb
Item Length12.47 in
Item Width12.12 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks8
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 The Hand That Rocks 1.2 Sweet Songs 1.3 Juju for: Grandma 1.4 Chromo 1.5 Still, a Red Hot Axe 1.6 If We Come As Soft Rain 1.7 Jujus/Alchemy of the Blues 1.8 Jujus/Alchemy of the Blues (Instrumental)
Number of Discs1
NotesJujus/Alchemy of the Blues is Sarah Webster Fabio's third album for Folkways. Funky riffs and jazz arrangements written and performed by her children and their band Don't Fight the Feeling underpin Fabio's poetry, giving her words gravity. "I feel that these [poems] represent the epitome of my experimenting with the integration of music and poetry in a Black idiom taken from the rich source of inspiration welling from the Black experience here in America," explains Fabio in the album's liner notes.Often referred to as the "mother of Black studies," Fabio is recognized for her contributions to founding the West Coast Black Arts Movement and for helping to establish Black Studies as an academic discipline. As a poet, performer, scholar, educator, and cultural critic, she published countless poetry collections, wrote for local and national publications, including Black World and Black Scholar, and recorded four albums with Folkways.