Anthony Joseph

The African Origins Of UFOs

Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born avant garde poet, novelist, Spoken word performer and musician. Image File history File links Anthony-joseph2. ... Image File history File links Anthony-joseph2. ... Image File history File links 1844712729. ... Image File history File links 1844712729. ... Motto: Together we aspire, together we achieve Anthem: Forged From The Love of Liberty Capital Port of Spain Largest city Port-of-Spain Official language(s) English Government President Prime Minister George Maxwell Richards Patrick Manning Independence from the UK 31 August 1962 Area    - Total 5,128 km² (163rd)   1... The Loves of Zero 35 mm film by Robert Florey 1927 Avant-garde /É‘vɑ̃gÉ‘rd/ in French means front guard, advance guard, or vanguard. ... British poetry is poetry written by British poets. ... British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. ... Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... Music from the United Kingdom has achieved great international popularity since the 1960s, when a wave of British musicians helped to popularize rock and roll. ...

Joseph was born in Trinidad in 1966 and has lived in the United Kingdom since 1989. He is the author of two poetry collections (Desafinado in 1994 and Teragaton in 1997) and two spoken-word CDs (Liquid Textology and Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band), which combined poetry and Afro-Caribbean free jazz. He cites his main influences as Jazz, Calypso, the Spiritual Baptist rhythms of his childhood, Surrealism and language poetry. Spoken word is a form of music or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. ... The Compact Disc logo was inspired by that of the previous Compact Cassette. ... West Indian also redirects here. ... Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... Calypso might refer to one of several things: Calypso is the name of a sea nymph in Greek mythology; Calypso music is a style of Caribbean folk music; Calypso is the name of an album sung by Harry Belafonte; Calypso is the name of a moon of Saturn; 53 Kalypso... No one across the vast world, truly knows from where the Spiritual/Shouter Baptists of Trinidad and Tobago originated from. ... Kay Sage. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

In September 2004, he was selected by the Arts Council England as one of 50 writers for the historic photo "A Great Day." His inclusion was in recognition of his contribution to experimental and literary writing and performance. He is one of the UK's few published black avant garde poets. Arts Council England was formed in 1994 when the Arts Council of Great Britain was divided into three separate bodies for England, Scotland and Wales. ...

Joseph is a touring writer with the British Council and has performed and taught internationally. He was a featured artist on Mannafest's "Mango Lick" UK tours (1998-2001) and on Renaissance One's 2002 "Modern Love", a spoken word event exploring love and modern relationships, which toured the UK as well as Spain, Germany, and the Czech Republic. The British Council is a partly UK Government-funded cultural relations organisation and a registered charity in the United Kingdom. ...

In April 2005, Joseph served as the British Council's first poet-in-residence at California State University, Los Angeles. His one-month residency included guest performances, master classes in creative writing and guest lectures on "Music Composition" and "Sociology, Race, Class and Gender." Joseph also read at the University of California, Los Angeles's Kinross Hall during his visit. In November 2005, he performed at the Chicago Humanities Festival. California State University, Los Angeles (also known as Cal State L.A. or CSULA) is a California public university located in Los Angeles, California near the city of Alhambra and the center of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university located in the residential area of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ...

As a tutor/lecturer, Joseph has taught creative writing at University of Surrey Roehampton, and at University of North London, where he taught science fiction writing. He currently lectures in creative writing at South Thames College in London and facilitates workshops for schools and community groups. Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or different types of writing from generic writing. ... Roehampton University is a campus university situated on two major sites at Roehampton in south-west London, in the United Kingdom. ... The University of North London is the name of a former university in the United Kingdom. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... South Thames College Logo South Thames College is a large general further education college, established over 100 years ago in London, England. ... For other uses, see London (disambiguation). ...

In October 2006, Joseph's first novel, The African Origins of UFOs, will be published by Salt Publishing. It has been described as an "afro-psychadelic-noir", a work of metafiction, mythology, Afro-futurism, and science fiction. It will include an introduction by Kamau Brathwaite. An excerpt from the novel was included in the Time Warner anthology Dark Matter: A century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora. The African Origins Of UFOs The African Origins Of UFOs is a book by Anthony Joseph. ... Salt Publishing is a small press publisher whose origins date back to 1990 when poet John Kinsella launched Salt Magazine in Western Australia. ... Metafiction is a type of fiction which self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction. ... // The word mythology (Greek: μυθολογία, from μυθος mythos, a story or legend, and λογος logos, an account or speech) literally means the (oral) retelling of myths – stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use supernatural events or characters to explain the nature of the universe and humanity. ... Afrofuturism, or afro-futurism, is an African-American and African diaspora subculture whose thinkers and artists see technology and science-fiction as means of exploring the black experience and finding new strategies to overcome racism and classism. ... Edward Kamau Brathwaite (born 1931) is a Barbadian writer, poet and dramatist; his poetry explores the African and Caribbean roots of his country and his people. ... Time Warner Inc. ... An anthology, literally a garland or collection of flowers, is a collection of literary works, originally of poems, but in recent years its usage has broadened to be applied to collections of short stories and comic strips. ...

Joseph is well known for his performances,often accompanied by The Spasm Band.

External links

• http://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk Official Website
• Anthony Joseph at www.contemporarywriters.com
• http://www.myspace.com/adjoseph Anthony Joseph's Myspace page