The many-layered music of the enslaved working-people who made these songs embodies grief, guilt from the forced acceptance of indignity, and anger, but it also embodies a conviction of ultimate justice and a summons to strive—even with oneself. I do not find these qualities in the current...
“Puts: Contact,” Kevin Puts, composer (Xian Zhang, Time for Three and the Philadelphia Orchestra) “Simon: Requiem for the Enslaved,” Carlos Simon, composer (Carlos Simon, MK Zulu, Marco Pavé and Hub New Music)
Royster points to vaudeville and minstrel shows where white musicians performing in blackface would take the music of enslaved people and strip it of its creativity and agency in an effort to dehumanize the Black artists who created it. As observers fight to determine which artists can — and ...
Royster points to vaudeville and minstrel shows where white musicians performing in blackface would take the music of enslaved people and strip it of its creativity and agency in an effort to dehumanize the Black artists who created it. As observers fight to determine whic...
Cuba, and estimated that by the end of that century fourteen distinct "nations" had preserved their identity in the mutual aid associations and social clubs known as cabildos, societies of free and enslaved blacks from the same African 'nation', which later included their Cuban-born descendants....
Controlled, enslaved, by earthly things Though welcomed under sovereign wings We are being consumed And Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God Have mercy on me, A sinner And Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God Have mercy on me, A sinner We are consumed, We are consumed The flesh has come between us...
knew every word.The music built to a crescendo. It was a pyramid of sound…driven by the pulsating beat of the krakebs—metal castanets—that are played at astonishing speed. This is the musical legacy of enslaved Black Africans brought to Morocco in medieval times. But the story...
Rhythm, Relationships, and Rebellion: The role of ritual music in the lives of the enslaved African diaspora in Saint Domingue (Haiti) and Cuba during the transatlantic slave tradeWoodroofe, Carmen AndallResearcher: An Interdisciplinary Journal
LISA RENEE on “The Bride of Christ Rescues Trapped Angelic Humans Utilized as Slaves for the Zeta and Other Intruders” “For those whom have endured the pain and suffering of alien abduction and Milab related histories of slavery at the control of the NAA invaders in future timelines, may ...
While Southern yuefu are to a great extent poems talking about love, the main theme of the Northern yuefu is war, fighting and martial spirit, or the sadness of being captured and enslaved by the enemy, like Rong gu ge 隔谷歌or Qiyu ge 企喻歌. Yet there are also poems like Zhuonuo ...