{"id":61,"date":"2005-02-15T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/15\/charles-natty-dread-darwin\/"},"modified":"2005-02-15T07:02:33","modified_gmt":"2005-02-15T13:02:33","slug":"charles-natty-dread-darwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/15\/charles-natty-dread-darwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles &#8220;Natty Dread&#8221; Darwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what has to be one of the more unusual concepts for a concept album, the Genomic Dub Collective in Birmingham (UK) is using the text of Darwin&#8217;s <cite>The origin of species<\/cite> as lyrics in their reggae inspired drum and bass.  They apparently premiered this last Friday as the closing event on Darwin Day at the University of Birmingham (where we spent a wonderful year on sabbatical 4.5 years ago).  I wish I could have been there.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Professor Pallen (one of the creators) from <a href=\"http:\/\/icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk\/0100news\/post\/tm_objectid=15169109&#038;method=full&#038;siteid=50002&#038;headline=mixing-reggae-and-darwin---why-not-name_page.html\">this article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen I was thinking about this year&#8217;s celebrations, I was very keen not to just play to the creationist versus evolutionist thing.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to make it very broad.<\/p>\n<p>Both Charles Darwin and his grandfather Erasmus were profoundly affected by the slavery they witnessed in places like Brazil and wrote poetry speaking out against it. I invited the poet Benjamin Zephaniah to read the poems last year and that gave me the idea to do something different.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGirl\">WeatherGirl<\/a> for pointing this out to me.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what has to be one of the more unusual concepts for a concept album, the Genomic Dub Collective in Birmingham (UK) is using the text of Darwin&#8217;s The origin of species as lyrics in their reggae inspired drum and bass. They apparently premiered this last Friday as the closing event on Darwin Day at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2005\/02\/15\/charles-natty-dread-darwin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charles &#8220;Natty Dread&#8221; Darwin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[8,1,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":444,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/02\/05\/charles-darwin-has-a-posse\/","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":0},"title":"Charles Darwin has a posse&#8230;","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"5 Feb 07","format":false,"excerpt":"...and I'm definitely on-board :-). 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