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Gospel Music is GOOD NEWS! - 0 views

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ufmue gospel music education

shared by etinsley on 27 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • etinsley on 27 Sep 15
     
    There is a supposed "separation of church and state." However, Gospel music can be a key source for teaching elements of harmony and rhythm and can help fill in certain gaps in music history.
s61white

Jazz | A Note from Ken Burns | Ken Burns - 1 views

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#UFMUE jazz Music education American History

shared by s61white on 11 Feb 19 - No Cached
  • They're the three most beautiful things Americans have ever created.
    • s61white
      s61white on 11 Feb 19
       
      Jazz is one of the greatest things Americans will be remembered for? That is a pretty weighty statement/
  • Jazz has offered a precise prism through which so much of American history can be seen — it is a curious and unusually objective witness to the 20th Century. It is the story of two world wars and a devastating Depression — the soundtrack that helped Americans get through the worst of times.
  • nd Jazz is also a story about race and race relations and prejudice, about minstrelsy and Jim Crow, lynchings and civil rights. Jazz explores the uniquely American paradox that our greatest art form was created by those who have had the peculiar experience of being unfree in our supposedly free land
    • s61white
      s61white on 11 Feb 19
       
      I tend to agree with this statement. So much of the jazz idioms are also found in the gospel music of African churches.
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  • In a filmed interview for a documentary history of our national pastime we made several years ago, the writer and essayist Gerald Early told us that "when they study our civilization two thousand years from now, there will only be three things that Americans will be known for: the Constitution, baseball and jazz music
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