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SUMMARY:Johan Grimonprez | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
DESCRIPTION:Film screening of Oscar® nominated Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat and conversation with filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. \nJazz and decolonization are entwined in Johan Grimonprez’s Oscar® nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. \nIt is 1961\, six months after the admission of sixteen newly independent African countries to the UN\, a political earthquake that shifts the majority vote from the colonial powers to the Global South. As Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bangs his shoe in indignation at the UN’s complicity in the overthrow of Lumumba\, the US State Department swings into action by sending jazz ambassador Louis Armstrong to Congo to deflect attention from the CIA-backed coup. \nFeaturing excerpts from “My Country\, Africa” by Andrée Blouin (narrated by Marie Daulne aka Zap Mama)\, “Congo Inc.” by In Koli Jean Bofane\, “To Katanga and Back” by Conor Cruise O’Brien (narrated by Patrick Cruise O’Brien)\, and audio memoirs by Nikita Khrushchev. \nFollowing the screening\, Johan will be joined by Amah Edoh for a conversation. Amah is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the production of knowledge about Africa\, and on how “African-ness” is produced across West Africa and Western Europe\, both through objects and in bodies. Amah was Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at MIT from 2017 to 2022. She has researched and written on Dutch Wax cloth\, a textile designed and manufactured in the Netherlands for West and Central African markets since the early 20th century\, that has since become a highly prized textile in these regions. Her latest publication\, forthcoming in American Anthropologist\, is an autoethnographic exploration of how political and economic upheaval in Togo since the early 1990s impacted the Dutch Wax cloth trade and the Togolese women who\, over the course of decades\, had made the cloth into a significant cultural artifact in the country. \nPart of the Spring 2025 Lecture Series. This event is presented as part of Artfinity\, an Institute-sponsored event celebrating creativity and community at MIT. Artfinity is organized by the Office of the Arts.
URL:https://act.mit.edu/event/johan-grimonprez-soundtrack-to-a-coup-detat/
CATEGORIES:Events & Exhibitions,Lecture Series
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