with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Mon., February 26, 7 –9 pm EST
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Rhythms of Freedom – A History of Jazz
A Building Bridges Special 7 – 9 PM
Put it this way: Jazz is a good barometer of freedom… In its beginnings,
the United States of America spawned certain ideals of freedom and
independence through which, eventually, jazz was evolved, and the music
is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered, unhindered
expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country.
Duke Ellington
Building Bridges explores the evolution of Jazz– and the genius – of America’s
greatest original art form. Without question jazz music is a powerful vehicle for
human expression. Everywhere we look or open our ears, we can discern the
emotional, creative, and musical effects of this particular mode of human
expression. First of all, this music is the cultural and spiritual tool and means by
which the journey of an entire group of people is chronicled. Second, jazz is the
repository of how a people were able to maintain life's energy in the face of
inhuman treatment by one group of humans, toward another group. The
Holocaustic aberration of slavery is contained within jazz music, in other words,
jazz is the symbolic record of the evolution of a people, that describes their
development from bondage, their quest for freedom, their part towards
liberation and self-determination.
Jazz music serves as a societal mirror, rooted in the collective psyche of this
nation – it is the cultural, spiritual, and psychological repository of the experience
of African Americans. Jazz is a story about the life-affirming art of a people and
its acknowledgment, would mean for all of us to recognize slavery as the
emotional wound that is still seeking to be redressed by those who created
slavery in this country and to excise its ghost of white supremacy which still
haunts our society’s policies and practices. We must decide whether we will
continue to be defined by the evil mental conditioning of white supremacy, or
weather we will choose to embrace the cultural, spiritual, and psychological
heritage as it is revealed through “Freedom Suite,” the liberation expressed in
Jazz.
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