*Note: Due to a technical error, some of the original video from this recording starts at 31:54
Curated by Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, Umi’s Archive is truly an act of love. Drawing on the remarkable life of her mother, Amina Amatul Haqq, Dr. Su’ad hasn’t just given us a insight into one person’s experience of being Black and Muslim, but has given us access to the vibrant, transformational and radical contours of Islam as shaped, nurtured and lived by African-American Muslims and the communities that surrounded them. “Umi,” she writes, “was a creative and loving person and Umi's Archive is also a dreamspace and a labor of love - love for Umi, of course, and love for what she loved: her peoples, knowledge, justice and liberation.”
Listening While Muslim joins Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer to celebrate by listening to the music which was the soundtrack of Umi’s life and the communities to which she dedicated her life. On the anniversary of Umi’s return home (may God grant her joy everlasting), Dr. Su’ad will guide us to listen as Umi did – and be inspired. As Dr. Su’ad says, “I offer Umi's Archive as a space where we can imagine those things are possible.”
Sponsored in part by the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at the University of Michigan.
Intro Mix:
Just My Imagination - The Temptations
Love Train - The O'Jays
Theme From Shaft - Isaac Hayes
Say It Loud - James Brown
Playlist:
1. Dua Qunoot
2. Why Do Fools Fall in Love - Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers
3. Banana Boat (Day-O) - Harry Belafonte
4. They Can't Take That Away From Me - Billie Holiday
5. A-Tisket, A-Tasket - Ella Fitzgerald
6. Azúcar - Eddie Palmieri
7. Ché Ché Colé - Willie Colon and Héctor Lavoe
8. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
9. Sunu - Mamady Keita
10. The Creator Has a Master Plan - Pharoah Sanders
11. White Man's Got a God Complex - The Last Poets
12. M-U-S-L-I-M - Native Deen
13. What's Come Over Me - Blue Magic
14. A House Is Not a Home - Luther Vandross
15. Respect - Aretha Franklin
16. Ain't Nothin' Goin' On but the Rent - Gwen Guthrie
17. Knock Three Times - Tony Orlando
18. September - Earth, Wind & Fire
19. Sarafina! - Sarafina! Original Stage Show Cast
20. Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
21. As - Stevie Wonder
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Listening While Muslim is a series of thematic listening parties created in 2018 by Asad Ali Jafri and Abdul-Rehman Malik. As a sonic soul journey, Listening While Muslim crosses continents, languages and genres and explores music at the intersection of faith, culture and politics.
