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No Refuge: For the Love of The Game

by Judah Adashi and Tariq Touré

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*** All proceeds will go to Know Your Rights Camp (knowyourrightscamp.com): a free campaign for youth, fully funded by Colin Kaepernick, to raise awareness about higher education, self-empowerment, and instruction on how to interact with law enforcement in various scenarios. ***

Beginning in August 2016, then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick engaged in a silent, peaceful protest against systemic oppression by sitting or kneeling during the pre-game performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner." When asked about his motivations, Kaepernick replied: “I am not going to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color...there are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.” A free agent since the end of the 2016 season, Kaepernick has not been signed by another NFL team. In response, other players and fans have taken up his cause, by kneeling during the anthem, and by boycotting the league.

Tariq Touré’s poem “Colin Kaepernick: For the Love of the Game” highlights the disposability of Black athletes who speak out against injustice. Judah Adashi’s "No Refuge" – originally conceived as part of a larger composition about Baltimore, where the text of "The Star-Spangled Banner" was written in 1814 – is a wordless reimagining of our national anthem, titled for a line in the lesser-known third verse of Francis Scott Key’s poem: “no refuge could save the hireling and slave / from the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave.”

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released February 4, 2018
Poetry written and performed by Tariq Touré
Music written and performed by Judah Adashi
(after John Stafford Smith's "To Anacreon in Heaven")

Recording engineered and mixed by Scott Metcalfe
Recorded January 2018 at the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD

Photo by Gerry Melendez, used with permission.

This project was supported by a Faculty Career Development Grant from the Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD.

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Judah Adashi Baltimore, Maryland

composer, organizer, teacher :: faculty, peabody institute of the johns hopkins university :: founder/artistic director, evolution contemporary music series & rise bmore

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