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INTERVIEW: Wayde Compton

Wayde Compton, Paul Watkins

Published: 2013-10-28

Paul Watkins interviews poet, deejay, and black historian, Wayde Compton. They discuss improvisation in music and poetry, authenticity and tradition, identity, African Canadian history in Vancouver, community, among other wide-ranging topics.

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  • Compton_Schizophonophilia.mp3

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  • B.C._Blues_%28bass_mix%29.mp3

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...the innovative working models of improvisation developed by creative practitioners have helped to promote a dynamic exchange of cultural forms, and to encourage new, socially responsive forms of community building across national, cultural, and artistic boundaries.

– Ajay Heble