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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Postmambo is in Santurce, Puerto Rico, looking at the art outside Taller Comunidad La Goyco

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Postmambo is at La Factoría in Viejo San Juan on a night when the music is so old school that the first number is Chano Pozo’s “El Pin Pin” (1945), celebrating the Allied victory over Japan: “Pin, pin, cayó Berlin, Pon, pon, cayó japón.”

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Postmambo is in Santurce, Puerto Rico, where the poster reads: “the banks have houses without people / the pueblo has people without houses.”

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Postmambo is in Santurce, Puerto Rico, at El Gandul, a hamburger joint where Sunday is rumba night, later on. Plena is Wednesday.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Postmambo is in San Juan, at the tomb of Ismael Rivera.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Postmambo is in San Juan, at the tomb of Ismael Rivera.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Postmambo is in Puerto Rico. Preparing for the music seminar we’re doing there Jan 4-14.

A low-highlight photo of a palm tree (on a beach you can’t see) against dark white clouds in a night sky, viewed from a prone position.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also this, same drive-in, same year /2

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

At the Fiesta Drive-in in El Paso, 1960. The cinemascope Mexican landscape flowed seamlessly into the real one all around us. /1

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Been going through my ephemera . . .

A card advertising the April 1988 shows of the Village Gate’s Monday night Salsa Meets Jazz series

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

About time somebody did a book about Tom Wilson! One of the most important and innovative record producers of the mid-60s. I used to have my class at Clive Davis learn about him but there was little in the way of text to give them. www.sup.org/books/litera...

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Looking south toward where the World Trade Center was.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Postmambo is back in New York at the most beautiful time of year.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Postmambo is still in Salvador da Bahia, buying bulk coffee

A grocery worker handles a large bag of coffee beans in bulk

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Postmambo is in Salvador da Bahia, attending the padé (petition to Exú) and procession of Filhos de Gandhy. Foto: David Feld.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Postmambo is in Salvador da Bahia, attending the excellent Balé Folclórico da Bahia. This is Oxum. Photo: Elizabeth Hamilton.

Oxum, the orixá of love, prosperity, and fresh water, in her golden finery, surrounded by attendants.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hello, I’m The American Slave Coast. www.chicagoreviewpress.com/the-american...

The cover of the book The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned and Constance Sublette, with the cameo image of a heavily pregnant woman doing farm labor with a hoe against a solid red background.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Postmambo is in Salvador da Bahia, where a lizard is drinking leftover beer

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

And the snakeskin head? The snake in jéjé is called Dan, cf the Haitian lwa Damballah. And they’re playing samba! /3

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This one, also with a snakeskin head, has a surprising resemblance to drums you would see in Haiti and the DR, in that it’s played with one stick and one hand. Because it derives from what in Brazil is called jéjé, fr the Fon-speaking world, which is where the word vodou comes from. /2

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Postmambo is in São Francisco de Conde, Bahia, at the Espaço Cultural Essa Viola Dá Samba. I had never seen a pandeiro with a snakeskin head before. “A relic,” says the player. /1

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Postmambo is in Salvador da Bahia as a bird perches on Ogum’s head — the Yoruba emblem of wisdom — one of Tati Moreno’s 7-meter-high sculptures of 8 orixás in the canal called Dique de Tororó . . .

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Postmambo is in Salvador da Bahia. Pictured: the divinatory oracle Ifá as visualized by the sculptor Carybe, UFBA Afro-Brazilian Museum.

16 cowrie shells in a circle of beads on a wood panel.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

First image in your camera roll that makes you laugh out loud.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Washington Square South right now

Sunset with pastel pink and dark grey-blue clouds

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

@melvingibbs.bsky.social right now at Public Records, Bklyn, performing “Geechee Reclamation.”

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

<Narrator>: “Music is central to New Orleans’s brand.”

A realtor’s sign on Esplanade in New Orleans says, “The music drew you here, this condo might get you to stay.”

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

What town are we in? Hint: rhymes with New Orleans.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Right now at the Blue Note in NYC thru Sunday: Michel Camilo in trio with 1/

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Postmambo is in New Orleans, at the Revolution Social and Pleasure Club second line.

Street party in New Orleans, with a sousaphone bell prominently visible.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Postmambo is in New Orleans, visiting with Spy Boy K-9 (Alphonse Feliciana) of the Golden Blades.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Postmambo is in New Orleans, where at the end of St. Joseph’s Night we encountered Big Chief Demond Melancon in his 2026 suit depicting the Amistad capture. Demond is one of two NOLA artists (along with Dawn DeDeaux) who will participate in the 2026 Venice Biennale.

Outdoors at night, Demond Melancon displays the front panel of his orange feather suit with elaborate beadwork depicting the Amistad takeover. Melancon uses small-gauge beads, making the sewing more labor-intensive but resulting in a higher-resolution image.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

/2 . . . and arrived at New Orleans.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

1/ Postmambo has left Veracruz . . .

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Postmambo is in Mexico, at Mandinga Grande

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Postmambo is at Villa Rica de Archidonia, where Cortés landed and dismantled his ships so that his men could not mutiny and flee. High winds today.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Postmambo is in Heróica Veracruz (its official name), founded by Cortés at the very beginning of Spanish colonization of mainland America. Sometimes written Heróic4 Veracruz to emphasize that it has borne the brunt of 4 invasions — 1 French, 1 Spanish, 2 US. Foto: Mariajosé Salmerón. /1

The sun rises over the historic port of Veracruz.

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Postmambo is in Xalapa, at a backyard fandango with members of Son de Madera. (On the left: Ramón Gutiérrez.)

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Postmambo Studies @postmambo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

And on the south side of the Zócalo in Mexico City:

Pointillistic color sign three stories high depicting in lights three women shouting ‘Es tiempo de mujeres’ (it’s the time of women.) Each woman is holding a flower.

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