A PORTAL TOWARD THE MUSIC OF THE OUTSKIRTS

AN EVENING OF SLAM AND CONCERT ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT PLASTER WALLS AND WINDOWS

"I have memories of paradise and a pack of cigarettes..." 

Rue Doudeauville posters, seen on the same afternoon

A public of initiates...

    "Pape Faye, son of Assane Mbaye, for your ceremonies"

...and musicians one comes upon without trying:

"Tonight, live concert, entry 5 euros"

            

"Madame! He just bought his guitar!," a friend of the young man called down from a window. As for the man in red, he accompagnied his song with the rattle he holds in his right hand.  

The group with whom this chapter began conclude their parade.

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Most of the concerts take place in the outskirts.

 La Goutte d'Or, on the city's northern frontier,

is a gateway into the world and urban music

of immigrants' immense periphery.  

That is the most powerful reason 

for predicting that within a generation,

this neighborhood will be a Destination.

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A neighborhood Gertrude Stein would have appreciated