Nomadic Wax
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Nomadic Wax is a fair-trade international music, film, and events production company with a social and global focus. It specializes in hip-hop and underground music.[1] Nomadic Wax works with a network of artists and musicians worldwide who use art as a medium for activism, social change, and community development. American Ben Herson founded Nomadic Wax in 1999, while living in Brooklyn, New York. Herson graduated with a B.A. in African Studies and Anthropology from Hampshire College in 2000 and did post baccalaureate studies in Wolof (a West African language) at Columbia University.[2]
Nomadic Wax has since expanded, with an additional office in Washington DC run by Creative Director, Magee McIlvaine.[3]
Background
During the summer of 1999, Nomadic Wax founder Ben Herson discovered a local independent hip-hop scene in Senegal and became fascinated by the music which contained politically and socially conscious lyrical content .[2] His attempts at persuading existing labels to publish the music met with difficulties.[4]
Film and Television
Nomadic Wax began working with film in 2007, with the film “African Underground: Democracy in Dakar" [5] co-produced with non prodit film company Sol Productions. The film is a feature-length documentary that explores the role of youth hip-hop activism in the 2007 Senegalese elections. On December 11, 2008, “Democracy in Dakar” was screened on LinkTV.[6] In 2009, it was screened on WHUT in Washington DC. Since then, “Democracy in Dakar” has been shown at dozens of film festivals and universities internationally.[7]
“Democracy in Haiti” [8] is Nomadic Wax's third documentary project. It follows a variety of young people to examine why Haiti's youth have become so separated from mainstream Haitian society and the democratic system.
Notes
- ^ Sherwood, Seth (6 December 2009). "The Songs of Senegal". The New York Times.
- ^ a b http://benherson.com/
- ^ http://www.thenation.com/article/democracy-mic-and-camera
- ^ Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (12 September 2009). Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 12. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 6 February 2011.
{{cite book}}:|author=has generic name (help) - ^ http://nomadicwax.com/democracyindakar/
- ^ http://www.linktv.org/programs/democracy_in_dakar
- ^ http://sol-productions.info/Democracy_in_Dakar.html
- ^ http://democracyinhaiti.com/
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