Rappers hammer home
some simple truths

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an impressive all-star hip hop
posse to chip away at drug abuse,
racism, sexism and violence.
H.E.A.L. is described as a “for-
ward movement for self construc:
tion.”

The core concept espoused in
this hip confadulation is this: a
caring culture begins at home with
a loving family. Sings British pop-
folk icon MC Billy Bragg on
Tighten Up Your Wig, “When
you're raising a faraily, you're rais-
ing consciousness....."’

Helping to hammer home some
simple truths about being human
without hostility are REM main-
man Michael Stipe, Chuck D, Kool
Moe Dee, Salt-N-Pepa, Ziggy
Marley And The Melody Makers,
Shabba Ranks, Ska Danks, Ms.
Melodie, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah,
L.L. Cool J., Big Daddy Kane, Kid
Capri, Sleepy Wonder, and a cast
of rap-reggaefied, hip hop,
skankin’, toastin’ thousands.
Anne Lederman — Not A Mark
In This World, Aural Tradition
Records/Vancouver Folk Music
Festival Society 1991

Lederman refurbishes 16 engag-

ingly tuneful snippets of historic
Canada. With sweeping cultural
scope, the thoroughness of a
musicologist and empathic inter-
pretation, fiddler and vocalist
Lederman brings tc us the many
voices and perspectives that have
combined to forge a country.

We hear the story in song of the
black slaves’ journey to freedom in

* Canada: Schmulik Gavrulik, a

Yiddish tale of rags and riches
played out by Lederman and
Toronto’s Flying Bulgar Klezmer
Band; | Wandered Today To the
School, Maggie — an anony-
mously-penned schoolhouse par-
ody of When You And ! Were
Young, Maggie; the 19th century
Indian’s Lament, a song sung in
the lumber camps of eastern
Canada; a Metis fiddle song,
Toronto Volunteers, describing the
Metis-native Northwest Rebellion
of 1885.

The resurrection of these robust
indigenous songs, wrapped in
wistful reflection and good-
natured humor, is a well-timed
endeavor given the looming
hegemony of red, white and blue
culture.

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Wednesday, October 23, 1991 ~- North Shore News - 33

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