Mar 8, 2017
Accompanying #NapoleonMaddox on guitar on #FranceCulture today. We're promoting our March 17th#banlieuesbleues show with a song taken from his #TwiceTheFirstTime repertoire "In Twice the First Time, Cincinnati-based Napoleon Maddox performs and retells the true story of his great-grand aunts, conjoined twins Millie-Christine. Born into slavery in 1851, Millie-Christine lived an extraordinary life jumping between autonomy and captivity, emancipation and exploitation. Here, Maddox uses the hyphen separating Millie-Christine as a metaphor for "Black" life in America; trapped between two identities, examined and exhibited."
