{"title":"Sarah Webster Fabio","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"together-to-the-tune-of-coltranes-equinox-2","title":"Together to the Tune of Coltrane's \"Equinox\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnown for her contributions to the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, Sarah Webster Fabio published a plethora of poetry collections and works of cultural criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Together to the Tune of Coltrane's \"Equinox\" is her fourth and final record for Folkways, and sees her vivid language and distinctive voice becoming enmeshed with a dynamic backdrop of exploratory jazz. Fabio pays homage to Black jazz and blues musicians Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and John Coltrane. Fabio's \"Together\" is set to the tune of Coltrane's \"Equinox,\" in which her words \"compose the air.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften referred to as the \"mother of Black studies,\" Fabio is recognized for her contributions to founding the West Coast Black Arts Movement and for helping to establish Black Studies as an academic discipline. As a poet, performer, scholar, educator, and cultural critic, she published countless poetry collections and works of cultural criticism, wrote for local and national publications, including Black World and Black Scholar, and recorded four albums with Folkways.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smithsonian Folkways","offers":[{"title":"Black LP.","offer_id":50393817284939,"sku":"2051496","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Together_to_the_Tune_of_Coltranes_22Equinox22_-_EP_8a18c402_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726427980"},{"product_id":"jujus-alchemy-of-the-blues","title":"Jujus \/ Alchemy of the Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJujus \/ Alchemy of the Blues \u003c\/i\u003eis Sarah Webster Fabio's third album for Folkways. Funky riffs and jazz arrangements written and performed by her children and their band Don't Fight the Feeling underpin Fabio's poetry, giving her words gravity. \"I feel that these [poems] represent the epitome of my experimenting with the integration of music and poetry in a Black idiom taken from the rich source of inspiration welling from the Black experience here in America,\" explains Fabio in the album's liner notes.   Often referred to as the \"mother of Black studies,\" Fabio is recognized for her contributions to founding the West Coast Black Arts Movement and for helping to establish Black Studies as an academic discipline. As a poet, performer, scholar, educator, and cultural critic, she published countless poetry collections, wrote for local and national publications, including Black World and Black Scholar, and recorded four albums with Folkways.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Smithsonian Folkways","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50484351402315,"sku":"2051428","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Alchemy_of_the_Blues_Poems_By_Sarah_Webster_Fabio_23ce2ccc_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727589175"},{"product_id":"jujus-alchemy-of-the-blues-2","title":"Jujus \/ Alchemy of the Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003eAll of Sarah’s albums were created after a near-death experience, which brought an urgency to her wanting to leave a legacy, and made her four-albums-in-five-years output understandable. The tediousness of her recovery ended up replenishing her artistic spirit, leaving her with a thirst for life. She collaborated with intensity. She knew her four albums on Folkways would translate her poems from the page to a permanent, lasting expression. She picked from her body of work the poems that would take her further than written text could ever promise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinyl Me Please","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50495724683595,"sku":"2225000","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_eb57df5f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727713999"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/sarah-webster-fabio.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}