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03/09/2026
C. DANIEL DAWSON + ADAM RUDOLPH
Widi Mambo / N’zungi a nzilla: Merely a Traveler on the Cosmic Path
Saturday, March 14, 2026
1:00 - 3:00 PM
Africanist scholar and photographer C. Daniel Dawson explores Afro-diasporic cosmologies, sacred performance, and embodied memory through the lens of national musics in the Americas such as Bomba, Rumba, Samba, Mambo, Cumbia and Tango. Mambo, meaning important issue or problem in the original Kongo context, reveals the African origin of these traditions.
Composer and master percussionist Adam Rudolph, renowned for his expansive knowledge of rhythm and sonic histories across cultures, responds by reflecting on creative philosophy, musical transmission, bebop syntax, signal rhythms and sonic mandalas. Together, they examine how mentorship structures and rhythmic systems circulate across cultures and epochs, functioning as vehicles of knowledge, memory and transformation.
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Robert Farris Thompson Maroon Institute The Robert Farris Thompson Maroon Institute for Afro-Diasporic Arts is designed to function as a virtual maroon society promoting advanced multidisciplinary scholarship and artistic practice through exchange, collaboration and preservation. RFTMI brings together a collective of cross-disciplinary sc...
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