Comments on: Spoken Word Comes to the Smithsonian http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2008/07/spoken-word-comes-to-the-smithsonian/ A new Smithsonian blog covering scenes and sightings from the Smithsonian museums and beyond. Tue, 21 May 2013 19:14:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Sharman Murphy http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2008/07/spoken-word-comes-to-the-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-1143 Sharman Murphy Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:02:36 +0000 http://aroundthemall.smithsonianmag.com/?p=372#comment-1143 (1) Hopi and Navajo are languages, not dialects. (2) Neither the Hopi nor the Navajo live in wigwams. i.e. It's fantastic that the Santa Fe Indian School performed at the Smithsonian and that you have reported this seminal event. This group is inspired and inspiring, talented and dedicated and committed, to their craft, their heritages, and each other. And...the dominant culture has a ways to go in its ability to adequately comprehend and represent the richness and reality of our nation's native peoples. (1) Hopi and Navajo are languages, not dialects. (2) Neither the Hopi nor the Navajo live in wigwams.

i.e. It’s fantastic that the Santa Fe Indian School performed at the Smithsonian and that you have reported this seminal event. This group is inspired and inspiring, talented and dedicated and committed, to their craft, their heritages, and each other. And…the dominant culture has a ways to go in its ability to adequately comprehend and represent the richness and reality of our nation’s native peoples.

]]> By: DLUX: THE LIGHT http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2008/07/spoken-word-comes-to-the-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-190 DLUX: THE LIGHT Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:05:14 +0000 http://aroundthemall.smithsonianmag.com/?p=372#comment-190 Spoken word will still be real even when performed in museums. We need more venues to reach more people. As long as poets and spoken word artist (not corporations) define the terms of "real" then I can be in the middle of a hoe-down and the it will still be real. Good post! One, DLUX: THE LIGHT The Spoken Word Hip Hop Poet www.dluxthelight.com Check my new blog about the good in hip hop! hiphopmotivates.today.com Spoken word will still be real even when performed in museums. We need more venues to reach more people. As long as poets and spoken word artist (not corporations) define the terms of “real” then I can be in the middle of a hoe-down and the it will still be real. Good post!

One,

DLUX: THE LIGHT
The Spoken Word Hip Hop Poet
http://www.dluxthelight.com
Check my new blog about the good in hip hop!
hiphopmotivates.today.com

]]> By: Smithsonian features Sante Fe youth spoken word « this poetic: art politic http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2008/07/spoken-word-comes-to-the-smithsonian/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Smithsonian features Sante Fe youth spoken word « this poetic: art politic Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:04:37 +0000 http://aroundthemall.smithsonianmag.com/?p=372#comment-189 [...] Read more … [...] [...] Read more … [...]

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