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Drum city
A young boy begins banging on pots and pans in his front yard, enticing other children to join him, and before long the entire city is feeling the beat.
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Alma's way. Season 2, episode 3, Howard brings the beat/Alma's payday
Alma invites Howard to play in the park's drum circle. After searching for the perfect drum, Howard settles on a bucket drum. But when the bucket goes missing, what will he play? And Mami and Papi offer to give Alma and Junior toy tickets in exchange for doing extra work around the house. When Alma gets Junior to help her with a job, she pays him less than she got. Why does she feel bad?
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Pokko and the drum
When Pokko plays her drum in the forest she suddenly finds herself surrounded by an entire band of animal musicians.
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Jasmine Toguchi, drummer girl
Jasmine worries that she will be the only one with no talent to share in the school talent show until her mother brings out her taiko drum.
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Sof’town Sleuths: The Hard-Boiled Genre Goes to Jo’Burg
In an attempt to develop new constellations of world literature, this article places the writers of South Africa’s Drum generation within the orbit of the American hard-boiled genre. For a brief period in the 1950 s, Drum was home to a team of gifted writers who cut their literary teeth in the fast-paced, hard-drinking, crime-riddled streets of Sophiatown, Johannesburg’s last remaining black township. Their unique style was a blend of quick-witted Hollywood dialogue, a private detective’s street sense, and the hard-boiled aesthetic of writers like Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. Writing in English in the era of the Bantu Education Act (1953), Drum writers challenged attempts to retribalize the African natives with the counter discourse of an educated, urbanized, modern African. This article (dis)orients conventional treatments of both Drum writers and the hard-boiled tradition by tracing alternative lines of flight between seemingly disparate fields of study.
Journal Article
Calling the water drum
\"A young boy loses both parents as they attempt to flee Haiti for a better life, and afterward is only able to process his grief and communicate with the outside world through playing the drums. Includes author's note.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Orlando on a Thursday
Orlando's Mami is away for the day, but Papi cheers him up by teaching him something new and playing the \"Magic Drum\" for him.
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A prequel to Nollywood: South African photo novels and their pan-African consumption in the late 1960s
This article interrogates the history of the photo novel in Africa with particular reference to African Film, a magazine of almost pan-African circulation, published between 1968 and 1972 in South Africa. Featuring the adventures of Lance Spearman, an African crime fighter, the magazine was read widely across Anglophone Africa, from Nigeria and Ghana to South Africa, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. After a brief introduction to the history of the photo novel, the author discusses the production, content, reception, and legacy of the Lance Spearman photo novels. It is argued that Lance Spearman may be understood as a crossover of James Bond and Philip Marlowe, and several influences from contemporary Western popular culture are traced. Contemporary readers cherished the visual modernity of the photo novels and readily identified with their stylish and street-wise main character. It is argued that African Film magazine played an important (today almost forgotten) role within the history of visual media in Africa. It was instrumental in spreading the new format of the photo novel to many Anglophone post-colonies, where it subsequently was 'vernacularized'. Photo novels served as surrogates for films, as a means to tell almost film-like stories, at a time when commercial African cinema was not yet invented. In terms of its commercial orientation, its readiness to borrow from Western popular culture, its transportability, and its almost pan-African circulation, African Film magazine may be called a distant forerunner of the current commercial video film industry of Nigeria.
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