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The Immaculate Invasion
By BOB SHACOCHIS
Viking
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PART ONE
The Day You See Me Fall
Is Not the Day I Die
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One black peasant woman fell upon her knees
with her arms outstretched like a crucifix and
cried, "They say that the white man is coming to
rule Haiti again. The black man is so cruel to his
own, let the white man come!"
--Zora Neale Hurston ().
Chapter One
VODOU RHYTHMS
The tyrants wanted everyone happy, that first carnival after the coup d'etat in September They wanted celebration and, when it was not forthcoming, set about to manufacture it themselves--because the contagion that had infected Haitian society had been cut away, gouged out with less than surgical precision: the disease called Lavalas was in remission, the malignant Aristide removed, and the status quo revived. No single social event was more important to the Haitian people, high or low, elite or peasant, than carnival, and carnival was the government's responsibility, a once-only chance to exercise its deformed sense of noblesse oblige. But when the tyrants sent the musicians to Champs du Mars to inaugurate the seasonal jubilation, inconceivably, no one came.
There were many reasons for the people'
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Haitian voudou-rock band rocks Queens
You didn&#;t need to be in Haiti at the Hotel Oloffson last Thursday night to hear the voodoo-rock band RAM.
For more 25 years, every Thursday night, through thick and thin, calm and upheaval, when they&#;re not touring &#; RAM legendarily performs at the Oloffson in Port-au-Prince.
But on Thursday, July 5, RAM played the grass-filled Springfield Park, located in the middle of Springfield Gardens, Queens, practically beneath the flight path to JFK.
The nine-piece band of Haitian musicians, playing traditional and adapted rhythms and melodies, infused the atmosphere, totally engaging the crowd obviously starved for music from their homeland. Loyalists traveled from Long Island, Brooklyn and even Manhattan in addition to coming from the neighborhood and nearby Cambria Heights.
Ancient folkloric polyrhythms intertwined harmoniously with punk rock guitar riffs (an influence from its founders&#; Max&#;s Kansas City days) and swinging Caribbean keyboard melodies combine for the experience of RAM.
This summer tour is also part of the band&#;s CD launch &#;RAM 7 August &#;, their seventh album, but the first in over a decade &#; harnessi
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Richard Auguste Morse
Haitian-American musician
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