Wax Poetics magazine Issue 38 on the shelves
November 19, 2009 by M. Gosho Oakes
Filed under Blogs
The latest issue of Wax Poetics [my favourite music magazine] is out now – with features on Curtis Mayfield and Spike Lee.
The issue includes:
- Re:Discovery – Melvin Van Peebles, Manfred Krug, Marvin Gaye, Judgment Night OST, John Carpenter
- Roc Raida – The Grand Master
- Shadows And Phonographs – This sinister role of the turntable in Hollywood classics
- Brotherman – Blaxploitation soundtrack for a film that wasn’t meant to be
- Adrian Younge – Black Dynamite composer refuses to cut corners with his authentic old soul
- Gangs On Film – The South Bronx of 1979 documented in 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s
- Night Life – Photographer Michael Abramson captured the magic of 1970s South Side Chicago
- The Rhythm of Film – DJ/producer David Holmes approaches soundtrack composition with a less-is-more philosophy
- Mood Music – European libraries created soulful instrumentals for ’70s film and television
- The Next Hustle – Ex-pimp Robert Beck transformed into writer Iceberg Slim, introducing a new genre for literature, film and music
- Comic Truth – Animation and indie film pioneer Ralph Bakshi drew attention to race and culture
- Gangster Boogie – Curtis Mayfield injected his own cultural commentary into the Super Fly legacy
- The Provocateur – Director Spike Lee continues to tell personal stories by any means necessary
- Playing It Straight – Black Dynamite director Scott Sanders crafts high-caliber blaxploitation homage
- Analog Out – Cybernetics, Louis and Bebe Barron, and the sonic life-forms of Forbidden Planet
British born writer and dreamer of Zimbabwean and Irish descent with hands and ink indelibly marked in music and culture, Marsha Gosho Oakes is Editor and Founder of SoulCulture. Has also written for likes of Blues & Soul, MySpace UK, HipHopDX, Dazed&Confused, Shook, Undercover and MOBO. Website: MGoshoOakes.com
