{"id":1347,"date":"2009-12-04T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T06:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/12\/_charles_will_give_a\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T06:25:30","slug":"_charles_will_give_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/12\/_charles_will_give_a.html","title":{"rendered":"Charles Mudede &#8211; Twilight of the Goodtimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Brown brought U.S. culture to African teenagers in the 1960s. They recognized their own beats revamped into a Pan-African modernity. A little more than a decade later, an upper-class Zimbabwean teenager named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/seattle\/Author?oid=237\">Charles Mudede<\/a> fell in love with American hip hop. Its roots in the African tradition of the griot failed to impress his parents, who loathed what struck them as a mechanical sound. Make that a loud mechanical sound.<\/p>\n<p>(Image <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/46\/172448613_ad929902a4.jpg%3Fv%3D1150955252&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/31518135%40N00\/172448613&amp;usg=__m0hWlNwViVHEez9hCnb3Qk2YfGc=&amp;h=333&amp;w=500&amp;sz=117&amp;hl=en&amp;start=16&amp;sig2=WRZRShFlwZNF1J4-aSkCdQ&amp;itbs=1&amp;tbnid=Sz7kAAihYp3EEM:&amp;tbnh=87&amp;tbnw=130&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dcharles%2Bmudede%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den&amp;ei=CwgaS8fdCZO6tAO8uYGSBw\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"charlesmudedeport.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/charlesmudedeport.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"233\" width=\"352\" \/>Now a Seattle screenwriter and writer\/editor at <i>the Stranger<\/i>, Mudede will talk about his musical education and its impact on his family in a lecture he&#8217;s calling <i>Twilight of the Goodtimes<\/i> at Western Bridge, Dec. 9. at 7 p.m. The lecture reflects the theme of Western Bridge&#8217;s current exhibit, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernbridge.org\/\"><i>Parenthesis<\/i><\/a>, about mothers and fathers, daughters and sons. (My review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/09\/western-bridge-parenthesis-as.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Brown brought U.S. culture to African teenagers in the 1960s. They recognized their own beats revamped into a Pan-African modernity. A little more than a decade later, an upper-class Zimbabwean teenager named Charles Mudede fell in love with American hip hop. Its roots in the African tradition of the griot failed to impress his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}