Charles Mudede – Twilight of the Goodtimes

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 parents, who loathed what struck them as a mechanical sound. Make that a loud mechanical sound.

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Now a Seattle screenwriter and writer/editor at the Stranger, Mudede will talk about his musical education and its impact on his family in a lecture he’s calling Twilight of the Goodtimes at Western Bridge, Dec. 9. at 7 p.m. The lecture reflects the theme of Western Bridge’s current exhibit, Parenthesis, about mothers and fathers, daughters and sons. (My review here.)