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A mother o f a Bedik tribal chief in Western Clothes.
Illustrations
shared during
Black History
M onth
Portland hip-hop and rap artists from the group
Young F.A.M.E. prepare for the release o f their first
CD ‘The Movement.’
continued
fro m Front
three-song edits for prom otion.
M ason says Y oung F.A.M .E.
stands above other groups because
o f its industry sound.
“ You put our CD in and it sounds
like it was put together with bril­
liance. All the tracks, all the beats are
a crisp, quality production,” he says.
So far. Young F.A.M .E. has re­
corded The M ovem ent, a C D due
for release in the next couple o f
months, featuring the hit single,
“Lostland,’’currently on the playlist
during the S tarchile’s: The U nder­
ground, a hip-hop and rap show
that airs each Sundays from 9 p.m.
to midnight on Jammin 95.5. The C'D
is directed tow ard a broad audience
and also features “In Luv W it” and
"G et M oney.”
Young F.A.M .E. perform ed at
the recent Poh-Hop hip-hop festi-
by S ean P. N elson ,
T he P ortland O bserver
val and was a leading act last month
at the Crystal Ballroom . They per­
form each W ednesday night at the
Icon. On W est Coast tours, the
group has hooked up with popular
artists such as Snoop Dog, Dog
Pound, Bad Ass, Too Short, 112,
G inuw ine and others.
Their music is downloadable at
w w w .s o u n d c lic k .c o m /
youngfameus. For information about
upcoming shows, call 503-449-8842.
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sity in Sacram ento.
He then stu d ied and p h o to ­
graphed in India, Nepal, Sikkim ,
Japan, Latvia, Patagonia, Chile and
A rgentina before beginning to ex ­
am ine African tribal legends in The
M ything Link Project in Senegal.
He began by studying the Bassari
and Bedik T ribes at the daw n o f the
21st Century.
In 2(X) I he continued the project
in the Onto River Valley in Ethiopia.
The follow ing year he traveled to
Nam ibia to continue his research
with the H imba and Bushman, or
San tribes.
His photographs and legends
constitute a unique departure from
A m ericans preoccupied with a tra­
ditionally isolationist view point
concerning the rest o f the world.
“M ost A m ericans that I know
aren 't in touch with other cultures.
The tribes I visit are really remote
and on the edge o f losing their
traditional way o f life. When I heard
the traditional m yths o f the elders.
I was am azed at how much had
really been lost,” M iglavs said.
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No Super Bowl free-for-all promised
( A P) — Don ’ t look for any flatu-
lent horses or im potence cures
during com m ercial breaks at the
A cadem y Awards. The motion pic­
tu re ac ad e m y has an u n u su al
hands-on policy to m onitor adver­
tising during the O scars, approv­
ing each com m ercial and enforcing
a strict set o f rules regarding w hat
can be shown.
It will be nothing like the raucous
Super Bowl free-for-all.
“W e want the show to reflect,
not a stuffiness, but a dignity ap­
propriate for film ’s highest honor,”
M iglavs' work is an artistic en ­
deavor to describe oral African
legends w hich predate the an­
cient histories G reece, Persia,
C hina and E g y p t.
In one m yth, G aruso, an elder
o f the Ethiopian Karo Tribe, re­
counts what he believes happens
to another tribesm an after death
in a legend entitled, Life After
Death.
Such ancient m yths in other
Erykah Badu is
credited with
starting
music's neo­
soul move­
ment, but she
really doesn't
like the term.
(AP photo)
(A P) — Singer Erykah Badu for m aking good music.
m ight be cred ited w ith started
“H ip-hop is not som ething we
m usic’s neo-soul m ovem ent, but do, it’s som ething we live,” she
she really doesn’t like the term.
said. “It’s the way we dress, the
“Neo-soul is just another label,” way we talk... everybody bobbing
she said. “W e d on’t make up those to the same beat. It’s a culture, and
labels. W ho know s w here they you have to find your ow n place in
com e from ? Probably from som e­ that culture. Top 1 0 o rT o p 4 0 c a n ’t
body w ho can m ake money by box­ dictate that. T hey can only dictate
ing it and selling it.”
w hat’s m arketable.”
M any credit B adu’s aw ard-w in­
Badu, bom Erica W right, fol­
ning, chart-topping, five-time plati­ low ed up "B ad u iz m ” w ith the
num 1997 debut album “Baduizm " Grammy-winning album, “M am a’s
for helping spark the neo-soul m ove­ G un," and her most recent C D is
ment. She ju st w ants to be known titled "W orldw ide U nderground.”
A d v en tu re travel p h o to g ra­
pher Janis M iglavs is sharing his
record o f the elders, witch doc­
tors, chiefs and sham ans o f tribes­
men in the darkest corners o f Af­
rica.
The Sherw ood artist is the fea­
tured exhibit during Black History
M onth at G allery 7126, inside the
S ellw o o d M asonic C e n te r on
Southeast M ilwaukie Avenue.
T h e e x h ib itio n , e n title d ,
A fric a's U ndiscovered Myths.
Images o f Endangered Cultures
will run through Saturday, Feb.
28.
cultures often evolved from stories
that could actually have their ori­
gins in prehistoric tim es in Africa,
Asia, North A m erica and Europe.
They preceded any written form o f
expression and may be the earliest
form o f storytelling known to prim i­
tive man and passed down through
generations.
“They have no conceptual art.
Everything is oral, all o f the stories
are all oral and none o f it ever writ­
ten dow n," M iglavs said.
He has studied about 55 tribes
throughout the world as well as 15
in Africa.
“The elders and the chiefs were
really gracious, but it takes awhile
to develop a rapport. I had to ex ­
plain I was ju st there to learn, I
w asn 't there to change anything,”
M iglavs said.
After immigrating from Germany
in 1948, M iglavseam ed a Bachelor
o f Arts in Sociology from the Uni­
versity o f C alifornia at Berkeley in
1969, Teaching Credentials in 1970,
and a M aster o f Fine Arts D egree in
1972 from C alifornia State Uni ver-
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