Breanna Washington uses her poetic approach to explain her sense of music's place:
Mentally integrated emotions run wild and dance until night ends.
Untamed bodies move to the beat and sway to the sound of easy listening.
Singing hearts and tapping feet give the juke joint its smoking flavor.
Interacial music . . . brings everyone near and everyone has an open ear.
Can you hear the long lost Blues, the jazzy tunes? Can you move . . . to the music alive?
from Ayana Daniel's journal
ReplyDelete"Blues Alley, Mississippi"
After spending a day in Mississippi, I feel like music was what brought communities together. At the Delta Blues Museum, there are various black and white artists who would come together and do something they all enjoyed doing together. Not only in Mississippi did this happen; even in Memphis at a little place called Stax Records, music was created on an integrated basis. Music has the gift of bringing different people together as one. "One God. One Aim. One Destiny." - UNIA Motto
from Breanna Washington
ReplyDeleteBack at the hotel [in Nashville] we just left the B.B. King's Blues Club. It was nice to hear live Blues music. You don't get that opportunity often. I swear the music was so good; I loved it. The food was good, too; it was worth the wait.