LAGOS BLACK HERITAGE FESTIVAL.... begins April 14
LBHF 2014 This year, the Lagos Black Heritage Festival takes a break from its current series –- The Black in the Mediterranean Blue. While the Festival policy of a thematic selection for each edition is not abandoned, it moves from the geographic outlook to the disciplinary -- the discipline for this year being: Music . The LBHF 2014 events hold from April 14th through 21 st at the Freedom Park (Old Colonial Prison), I Hospital Road, off Broad Street, Lagos. Much is happening in the musical field, but there is a domination of Eura-merican pop forms, which near completely stifles the exploration of indigenous musical resources both in direct performance for audiences, and in their application to other disciplines –- most notably in theatre and cinema/video. Regarding the latter, when one considers what passes for incidental or ‘mood’ music in much of the output of the ever-expanding African film industry, it becomes a classic case of a visual assault ...
