{"id":492,"date":"2014-11-11T18:56:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T18:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bemba\/?page_id=492"},"modified":"2020-06-29T20:47:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:47:15","slug":"kabusha-radio-remix","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/bemba\/kabusha-radio-remix\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabusha Radio Remix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your Questions Answered\u00a0<\/b>by Pioneering Zambian Talk Show Host,
\n<\/b>David Yumba (1923-1990)<\/b><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Press Play<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Listen<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Flip through the Transcript<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0Write a Letter.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

an ethnographic installation by Debra Spitulnik Vidali and\u00a0Kwame Phillips<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

June 2, 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Art, Materiality and Representation<\/a><\/h4>\n

The British Museum<\/h4>\n

London, UK<\/h4>\n

<\/h1>\n

<\/h5>\n
23-24 April 2017<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Sound of Memory:\u00a0 Sound-track\/Sound-scape<\/a><\/h5>\n
University of London, Goldsmiths<\/h5>\n
London, UK<\/h5>\n

<\/h1>\n

<\/h5>\n
10-12 March 2016<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Anthropologies Num\u00e9riques #4<\/a><\/h5>\n
Le Cube<\/a> – Centre de cr\u00e9ation num\u00e9rique<\/h5>\n
#kabushalecube<\/span><\/h5>\n
Paris, France<\/h5>\n

<\/h1>\n

3-7 Dec 2014<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\u2028Ethnographic Terminalia’s “Bureau of Memories”\u2028<\/a><\/h5>\n
Hierarchy<\/a><\/h5>\n
Washington, DC<\/h5>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 What is it like to break into the archive &\u00a0dialogue with someone who has passed?<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0. \u00a0\u00a0.\u00a0 \u00a0. \u00a0\u00a0to seek advice from the late sage of the Zambia radio airwaves?<\/p>\n

What happens when you speak English and the wise advisor speaks Bemba?<\/p>\n

What is lost and gained in translation?<\/p>\n

This installation<\/strong>\u00a0repurposes Bemba language analog material originally recorded in Zambia between 1986 and 1990 by Debra Spitulnik Vidali<\/a>, and which has now been digitized for the development of a new initiative entitled the Bemba Online Project<\/a> (BOP) as well as a book about one of Zambia\u2019s most famous radio personalities, David Yumba.\u00a0 David Yumba was the creator and producer of the Bemba language radio program, Kabusha Takolelwe Bowa<\/i><\/strong> (a Bemba proverb meaning \u201cThe Person Who Inquires First, Is Not Poisoned by a Mushroom\u201d or \u201cThe One Who Asks Questions, Never Goes Wrong\u201d). \u00a0In the program, Yumba answered listeners\u2019 letters about politics, society, family, and current events, as they were read out aloud by his co-host Emelda Yumbe.\u00a0 The show ran for over 25 years on Radio Zambia and was one of the most popular radio programs in Zambian history, up to the time of Yumba\u2019s death in 1990.<\/p>\n

David Yumba was completely unique and there is no comparison . . . but if analogies with US media figures need to be made, one might imagine \"David<\/a>a compassionate, brilliant, devout, searing, sometimes angry, and sometimes playful hybrid of Michael Moore,\u00a0Ralph\u00a0Waldo \u201cPetey\u201d\u00a0Greene, Jr., Larry King,\u00a0Judge Judy, and Garrison Keillor, tinged with a bit of a Dear Abby and Doctor Ruth personal advisory tone, all overlaid by the characteristically Bemba oratorical style of a razor sharp griot and trickster.<\/p>\n

What you hear<\/strong> is a remixed and reinvented Kabusha<\/i> \u201cradio program\u201d conceived and engineered by Kwame Phillips, that emulates the same format as the original 60 minute show.\u00a0 Excerpts of Yumba\u2019s answers from past programs are used to answer questions of the present-day Bemba archive workers about the politics and technicalities of archives, as well as new questions from \u201canonymous\u201d letter writers about current Zambian and global politics.\u00a0 We recorded London-based Christine Matanga-Mukuka in November 2014 reading the new letters.\u00a0In the mix of these new letters and Yumba\u2019s archived commentary, you will also\u00a0\"Vidali<\/a>hear\u00a0the rich songs, colorful advertisements, and crisp announcements that animated the original Kabusha<\/i> transmissions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

As the archived voice of the late sage David Yumba is activated to advise a new group of question-askers, the installation throws issues of subject agency, immortality, translation, wisdom, ownership, truth, and the media-democracy relationship into bold relief.\u00a0 Maybe the questions and the answers are for you, too.\u00a0 Remember, Kabusha Takolelwe Bowa,<\/i><\/b> \u201cThe One Who Asks Questions, Never Goes Wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n

Kwame Phillips
\n<\/b>John Cabot University<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Debra Spitulnik Vidali
\n<\/b>Emory University<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Remix Concept
\nDigital Editing
\nSound Engineering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Fieldwork
\nOriginal Recordings
\nTranscripts & Notes; Web<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Remixed Answers<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Questions<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\"KTB<\/a><\/p>\n

BOP\u00a0<\/b>Disclaimer<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>The Bemba Online Project is intended solely for non-commercial educational, research, artistic, and personal purposes.\u00a0 Commercial use of audio materials, images, and texts featured on this website is prohibited.\u00a0 Copyright of material utilized in the Bemba Online Project remains vested with the original writers, artists, publishers, and producers.<\/p>\n

Visit the Bemba Online Project<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

BOP Home<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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