I Remember When at African American Performing Arts Center, Albuquerque (Expo NM)
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I Remember When

Saturday Feb 13, 2016

310 San Pedro Dr NE (Expo NM)
Albuquerque, NM 87108
US

Phone: 222-0778
Website: Click to Visit

Cost:

$8-$15

Details/Tickets

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A tribute to Black music through the ages.

See also: Show Up!

The Source of All Music

A place in space, also an earthly race

By Joshua Lee
Sun Ra
Wikimedia Commons

It seems too obvious to bear repeating, but—since Burque seems to have a higher threshold for tolerating racism than most places I've been to—black people invented most of the music you listen to. There's nothing grosser than some old racist bastard referring to hip-hop as “black music” while blasting Stevie Ray Vaughn (oh irony of ironies).

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