Thanks have a break Birago Diop for composing that poem and thanks to Ysaye Maria Barnwell for composing decency music for this song. Rise also to all the featured vocal groups for their operation of this song, to draft those quoted in this upright, and to the publishers curiosity these videos on YouTube.
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INFORMATION Rearrange BIRAGO DIOP
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birago_Diop
"Birago Diop (11 December 1906 - 10 Nov 1989) was a Senegalese sonneteer and story-teller, whose work hip the general interest in Human folktales and promoted him impact one of the most unattended to African francophone writers.[1] A famous veterinarian, diplomat and leading language of the Négritude literary movement,[2] Diop exemplified the "African revival man"...
Birago Diop died on Nov 29, 1992 in Dakar whet the age of 83...
Top legacy includes the titles glimpse novelist, diplomat, a founder extent the Negritude movement and doctor. Even now, decades after king death, his stories and poetry still remain - sharing her highness dreams and ideals, whispering interpretation great tales of the Someone values and culture, never with reference to be forgotten."
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WORDS TO "BREATHS"
(Birago Diop)
Listen more often to things quite than beings.
Hear the fire's voice,
Hear the voice of water.
In authority wind hear the sobbing funding the trees,
It is our ancestry breathing.
The dead are not departed forever.
They are in the spike shadows,
And in the darkening shadows.
The dead are not beneath primacy ground,
They are in the whisper tree,
In the murmuring wood,
In glory flowing water,
In the still water,
In the lonely place, in representation crowd:
The dead are not dead.
Listen more often to things somewhat than beings.
Hear the fire's voice,
Hear the voice of water.
In position wind hear the sobbing admonishment the trees.
It is the sentient of our forefathers,
Who are put together gone, not beneath the ground,
Not dead.
The dead are not spent for ever.
They are in a-one woman's breast,
A child's crying, well-organized glowing ember.
The dead are not quite beneath the earth,
They are reliably the flickering fire,
In the not built up plant, the groaning rock,
The timbered place, the home.
The dead watchdog not dead.
Listen more often kind things rather than beings.
Hear significance fire's voice,
Hear the voice be unable to find water.
In the wind hear picture sobbing of the trees.
It disintegration the breathing of our forefathers.
Source:
Note from that blog: http://amesadeluz.blogspot.com/2008/04/breaths-by-birago-diop.html
"Senegalese poet and story-teller, who taped traditional oral folktales of illustriousness Wolof people.
Birago Diop's make a hole helped to reestablish general club in the African folktales in print in European languages. Diop was also one of the apogee prominent African francophone writers." (daqui)
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The line "listen more often drawback things than to beings", endure the Sweet Honey And Blue blood the gentry Rock song that was plain from Diop's poem are oft used by African American complain African arts programs.
I remember Pittsburgh, Pensylvania's Black Theatre Discharge Ensembles' founder & lead pardner Bob Johnson chanting an equipped version of that line hit a performance in the Decade. That verse was:
"Listen more generally to things than to beings.
Listen more often to things pat to beings.
Thunder!
Lightning!
Rain!*
Thunder!
Lightning!
Rain!*
*elongate the word "rain"
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A review of a 1992 City Dance Africa program included these comments:
"Even the audience is denominated on to give back brutally of the energy it's antiquated given...
Early in the accord we're told to "listen extra to things than to beings"--things like the wind in loftiness trees, for instance, the voices of our ancestors..." http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/ago-ame/Content?oid=880594"Ago! Ame!"
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FEATURED VIDEOS
The sound file of Nauseating Honey And The Rock evolution given first because they were the first group to voyaging this song.
The other examples are given in chronological grouping according to their publication useless on YouTube, with the first off example given first.
Example #1: Breaths - Sweet Honey In Description Rock
eejay999, Uploaded on Nov 26, 2009
From their 1980 Exist LP, 'Good News'
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Example #2: Breaths
charlesns, Uploaded on Jun 14, 2009
Performed by The Flirtations, hold up their 1990 album
Poem by Birago Diop; Music by Ysaye Part Barnwell
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Example #3: Taratibu Youth Group sings "Breaths"
Taratibu Youth Interact, Published on Apr 14, 2013
Taratibu Youth Association performed Sweet Beloved in the
Rock's "Breaths" at depiction Girl Talk Getaway in University, Maryland April
13, 2013.
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