{"id":73474,"date":"2015-04-15T02:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T02:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=73474"},"modified":"2015-04-15T02:05:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T02:05:57","slug":"milo-and-all-that-jazz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=73474","title":{"rendered":"Milo and All that Jazz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milo and All that Jazz is the work of Dr Kitty Fadlu-Deen and published by SONDIATA GLOBAL MEDIA.\u00a0\u00a0 Kitty was born in Singapore and is a graduate of University College Dublin and the University of York.\u00a0 She has worked as a music educator in Sierra Leone where she lives with her husband. She therefore has a first hand appreciation of the international music scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a music professional from South East Asia , the vastness and depth of musical offerings in her adopted country\u00a0 was an inspirational discovery for Dr Fadlu-Deen.\u00a0 Part of the expression of this inspiration is her co-founding of the Ballanta Academy of Music, Freetown in 1995.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Milo and All that Jazz attempts to explore the history and creative breadth and depth of Sierra Leonean music from the 1960s to the 1990s.\u00a0 Considering the vast choice of Bands and artists during that period, this is no mean feat.\u00a0 Aminatta Forna, a renowned Sierra Leonean author, says \u201c\u2026 <em>Dr Fadlu-Deen has commemorated Pino and all the most talented of Sierra Leone\u2019s astonishing array of musicians over three decades in a fascinating story that has been meticulously researched and elegantly written \u2026 Sierra Leone boasts a powerful voice that moves to its own distinctive beat.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The book takes the reader on a journey\u00a0 steeped in Sierra Leonean culture\u00a0 expressed through her distinctive music, providing the reader with\u00a0 an appreciation of its evolution and growth\u00a0 over\u00a0 three memorable decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a definite must read for music lovers the world over.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a\u00a0 book that connects the development of Sierra Leonean cultural music and its sources of inspiration from the African Continent and beyond.\u00a0 Above all, it recognises\u00a0 the influence and inspiration with which Sierra Leonean music continues to touch the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Milo-and-All-That-Jazz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-73475\" src=\"http:\/\/sem.lamtech.sl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Milo-and-All-That-Jazz-500x364.jpg\" alt=\"Milo and All That Jazz\" width=\"500\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Winston Forde, UK<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milo and All that Jazz is the work of Dr Kitty Fadlu-Deen and published by SONDIATA GLOBAL MEDIA.\u00a0\u00a0 Kitty was born in Singapore and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":73476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,745],"tags":[20317,20318,1327,1373],"class_list":["post-73474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-life-and-entertainment","tag-dr-kitty-fadlu-deen","tag-milo-and-all-that-jazz","tag-sierra-leone-culture","tag-sierra-leone-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}