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April 30, 2021
“Every heart, every soul, is a drum… here’s your sanctuary.”
David Rudder, Song of the Earth
Kim Johnson’s The Illustrated Story of Pan captures and reveals so much of the Caribbean‘s essence by prompting our dangerous memory’s activation and reclamation. By fashioning a haven for deep meditation on “the transformation of a drum into a melody maker” and a movement, the book compels cultural retrieval.
In this, the third commentary in our ongoing Writers’ Symposium/Lime, Kamau Odinga, in “What This Pan Book Did For Me–The Ancestors Are Jumping,” reconnects with and deepens his early pan memories through a close reading and talking back to Johnson’s text.
And in the second offering, Monty Guy, in “Pan In All Its Glory,” maps his sixty-plus year pan journey through the images and stories unleashed in The Illustrated Story.
In the battle of interpretation, these salvos extend the discussion begun with Simone Dalton’s “Making Meaning From Memory,” as BDN facilitates a lime, over the next two of our forthcoming issues, with global practitioners and participants in the pan movement, interrogating Johnson’s illuminating text.
Read on, engage the authors, and join our community in conversation by posting comments in “Start the Discussion” at the end of each article.
*Writers’ Symposium: Kim Johnson, The Illustrated Story of Pan (Second Edition); POS, Pangea Ltd, 2021; 304 pages; ISBN 978-976-8289-62-9 (hardcover).
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