Topic: music
About seventy-five years after the Constitution was adopted, people began to question the problem that was ignored in the original penning of the document. The slavery issue.
Churches began organizing on each side of the issue, though there were far more that tried to stay out of it than there were churches that took a stance of active advocacy.
Slave country needed help. So it created another lie. That being about how the many, many slaves were raping the white women. A lie that even continues in our cultural fears, remaining largely unspoken.
Of course, according to Loren Schoenberg (the jazz lecturer in Friday's blog), the opposite was true--a fact that has been brought more to light in just the past couple of decades.
So the men got very angry, but had no way of expressing it. That's when jazz came into vogue.
And the funny part: The creators of the only American music became the masters of the music. Playing their music and even being given Saturday afternoons off from their labor to create the very music that was an expression of sadness and anger toward the slaveholders and their families, who came to the town squares and believed another lie.
That lie being that the musicians were just having a good time. Now, that's insurrection. Carried out in a safe way that became profitable over time. And even made it's way into white churches! Giving oppressed people some comic relief and presenting a powerful lesson for the rest of us through acts of protest.
What a 4th of July message!
