To do always as much as we can to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.
Song for reflection: Africa, John Coltrane
Thought for the Day: Jones, Leroi (Amiri Baraka). Blues People: Negro Music in White America. William Morrow, 1963. Introduction, ix-x.
“How did it do this? What was so powerful and desperate in this music that guaranteed its continued existence? This is what pushed me. But as I began to get into the history of the music, I found that this was impossible without, at the same time, getting deeper into the history of the people. That it was the history of the Afro-American people as text, as tale, as story, as exposition, narrative, or what have you, that the music was the score, the actually expressed creative orchestrated, vocalized, hummed, chanted, blown, scatted, corollary confirmation of the history. And that one could go from one to the other, actually, from the inside to the outside, or reverse, and be talking about the same things. That music was explaining the history as the history was explaining the music. And that both were expressions of and reflections of the people.”
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