{"id":5531,"date":"2022-02-18T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=5531"},"modified":"2022-02-18T16:48:27","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T21:48:27","slug":"unbury-our-dead-with-song","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/unbury-our-dead-with-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Unbury Our Dead With Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">M<strong>\u0169<\/strong>koma Wa Ng<strong>\u0169g\u0129<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/56577377-unbury-our-dead-with-song\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The fourth novel<\/a> by the Cornell English professor is narrated by a Kenyan reporter who meets four musicians competing in a low-rent Nairobi boxing club to be the top singer of Tizita, a seminal type of Blues music from Ethiopia. The meeting inspires the tabloid journalist and growing Tizita fan to follow the singers back to their native country as a means of understanding the music through the lives of its performers. \u201cThe Tizita was not just a popular traditional Ethiopian song; it was a song that was life itself,\u201d the author writes in his protagonist\u2019s voice. \u201cIt had been sung for generations, through wars, marriages, deaths, divorces, and childbirths. For musicians and listeners exiled in Kenya, the U.S., and Europe, or trying to claim a home in Israel as Ethiopian Jews, the Tizita was like a national anthem to the soul, for better or worse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/books\/\">More books by Cornellian authors<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth novel by Cornell English professor M\u0169koma Wa Ng\u0169g\u0129 is narrated by a Kenyan reporter who meets four musicians competing in a low-rent Nairobi boxing club to be the top singer of Tizita, a seminal type of Blues music from Ethiopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5505,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"cornell_author":[],"cornell_year_book":[],"class_list":["post-5531","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unbury Our Dead With Song - 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