Today is Juneteenth. That counts as a current event! What is the commemorative occasion that some want to make a national holiday? I am celebrating by reading about history and listening to music (among other things). June is also Black Music Month so it's a fitting pairing! Blessings to all!
Skip Marley, Bob's grandson, is pretty good. I know this is a little off topic, but it's Bob Marley's lineage, so it is pretty relevant to black history and fighting oppression.
I worked at Texas Instruments a looooong time ago. They allowed people to take Juneteenth off (unpaid). Pretty much every year, all the white people took it off and all the black people worked. That told me that it wasn't that big of a holiday, at least not big enough to lose a day's salary.
Happy Obama Day!! (oh crap, that was 6/14) I'm still a little behind the curve on this one... My wife and I are both 4 year college graduates from southern state institutions and neither one of us had heard that term before 10 days ago (or whenever Trump decided to make it famous). As such, and for the record, I don't see making this a national holiday, to be put on a level with Memorial Day and Labor Day etc. I just saw a news feature that a bunch of folks from Oklahoma are lined up to celebrate today... very nice of them in that heat...
Musicians come in all colors. Music has no color. What a shame one thing that unites us is being used this way.
All music has its roots. We are only too happy to look at inventors, throughout the years, for their innovations. And we continue to credit them with their discoveries. But, apparently, you don't feel the same way about music.
Marley's dad was white and Marley had like 11 illegitimate children. Sounds like an oppressor indeed.
Sorry you feel that way, but music styles have origins. It's ok to celebrate the roots of an art form.
You are not qualified to speak for how I feel. Segregating music based on race does not give credit to the musicians talent.
I celebrate the Italian renaissance in Painting, the Greek classisism in sculpture, the German baroque in chamber music, the British musical invasion so I have enough appreciation left to also celebrate the african-american blues, jazz, soul and even reggae which I don't like at all but I do appreciate its existance and influences.
Your approach is to dilute their contribution and have it disapear in the masses instead of recognizing said contribution.
You are not qualified to speak for how I feel. Celebrating an artist does not require segregating their work. No reasonable person could extract that from what I actually said.
You're being confrontational for nothing really. I didn't "speak" about how you felt, I felt sorry for what you're showing in your post. Recognising ones origin isn't segregating. Saying blues or jazz originated from african-american doesn't mean that jazz is only for black or that only black can play it, just like recognizing Germany for the baroque chamber music doesn't mean no blacks, asians or slavs or anyother can play it and be recognized for it. It only acknowledge the creative origin of the art style.
Yes, unfortunately school systems can only educate us about a fraction of what we should know. That's why independent, lifelong study is so important.
