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2022-02-27 02:17:55
[…] a world that dreamed of uplift and found purpose in music. During the first five years of Still’s life, lynching, a form of white supremacist racial control and terror instituted by Southern white men enraged at the Lincolnian idea of Black freedom, reached a crescendo. At the time, the idea of “racial uplift” embraced by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Ida B Wells, and Carter G. Woodson seemed incompatible with reality. Yet it is the paradigm of racial uplift that would become transformational in the life of William Grant Still. W.E.B. Du Bois Racial uplift was an ideology for racial transfiguration advocated by Du Bois and “The Talented Tenth” with the organizing principle that the Black people would be best led forward by an elite group of upper class, well-educated Black men and […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-01-11 14:15:00
Author Jacqueline Woodson Gets A Lot Done, But How?
The MacArthur Fellow, who has also won the National Book Award and lives with her partner and two children in Brooklyn, is building Baldwin Arts, an artists colony for writers, composers, and visual artists of color. Lots of free time there, right? “We all find our space. In my bubble, I’m working on a book […]
2020-03-13 23:03:00
Florence Price's "Fantasie Negre No.2" - performed by Lara Downes
[…] of racism and prejudice in today’s climate. Lara’s meditations on these pieces of music are powerful and gorgeous - including “We Shall Overcome,” “Steal Away” and “Down By The Riverside.” Some Of These Days features Toshi Reagon, PUBLIQuartet, Musicality Vocal, The Chapin Sisters and others. Lara reimagines these songs with inspiration from America’s diverse musical traditions: classical, jazz, folk, country. She is also joined by Newbery Award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson - the former National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and Young People's Poet Laureate - for an in-depth audio commentary discussion on the American fight for freedom and the bright potential of today’s younger generations. Listen to “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free” - the Civil Rights Movement anthem written by Billy Taylor and popularized by Nina Simone here: https://youtu.be/rubOSPbhNRU
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ArtsJournal: music
2020-01-20 13:45:00
This Author Says This Moment Isn’t As New As We Like To Think
And actually, Jacqueline Woodson says, that’s a good thing to know on a deep level, so that she doesn’t only despair at lead poisoning in Flint or the rise of asthma after 9/11. “It’s so important to know that whatever moment we’re in, we’re not in it for the first time. … Knowing that something […]
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