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• W1937604 abstract "Introduction The articulation of jazz is a manifestation of blues, manifold in hope, aspiration, tears, and pain; yet, faith in a Spirit--a god source that transcends and transfigures human emotion and personality into a paternity of humanity, yielding a strength, not denied or decried, is its foundation. Jazz, defined, is a creative attempt to exceed boundary through the art of improvisation. This act illustrates the democratic process of individual contribution to a unified task. For example, in a jazz band, the individual musicians improvise a recognized melody utilizing their respective, unique skill in rendering the completion of the song's performance. Similarly, the blues invites this kind of democratic process in its portrayal of the individual challenged by social pressure such as racial or gender persecution. Thereby, in its finest moment, blues relinquishes, collectively, a personal record of that experience. Blues is an expression of melancholia. It is a desperate attempt to replace emotional exacerbation through the balm of song. Through the articulation of the event, the blues musician triumphs over a particular dilemma or obstacle surrendering it to a less powerful psychological pressure (often sequestered by the singer) thwarting his or her life. Therefore, a perceived real handicap becomes pliant, controlled by the singer. The music has the power to convert tragedy into a revelry of dance and song; their release, frees. Memory sustains the all encompassing insignia of the blues. It mimics the perceived blue note that often deceives conspicuously as dejection or sorrow. However, the blue note that bends, with a moody strain, rises above circumstance through the articulation of the event. Therefore, blues, like its action statement in jazz, as a tool, effectuates hope and hilarity where there is a perceived sadness or gloom.. Gayl Jones' novel Corregidora reflects the often perceived notions of the cyclic nature of slavery's impact (its color consequences and psychological stronghold) but Jones creates a character, bold and determined, who makes generations through a steadfastness of individuality, sexuality and control. Ursa Corregidora becomes the descendant that her forebears, Great Gram and Gram, through their articulation of blues, can look on with racial and gender pride and human triumph. Ursa is a blues singer who lives her life through musical pronouncements. Her sense of history, instilled in her through the tragedy of Great Gram and Gram's experience being raped by the Portugese slave-holder Corregidora, gives Ursa a sense of responsibility that sustains and makes proud of her Afro-Brazilian heritage. It is essential to remember that Of its extra-musical meanings, the most important is of the blues as a state of mind.... It is often understood that a person will 'sing the blues' or 'play the blues' in order to rid himself of' the blues.' This is so important to blues singers and musicians that many maintain that one cannot play the music unless one has the 'blue feeling' or 'feels blues.' (Oliver 37). Indeed, Ursa, as an artist, makes generations through blues expressions. As such, she carries on the tradition of storytelling. So, too, Billie Holiday's similar blues account given in Lady Sings the Blues, though a fictionalized persona of the historical Holiday, Lady's sorrows and struggles reflect a life reinforced with strength of an inner self expressed through song. Thereby, Billie, like Ursa, was an individual who followed the tune within and expressed it without. The jazz musician, through a blues construct, recognizes and acknowledges the established traditional perimeters in which to mold and integrate a new stylized path; often, such trail leads to non-traditional means of assertion and affirmation. The affirmative statement that the music makes, demands racial equality and gender recognition through that equality--an individual of value and integrity. …" @default.
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• W1937604 title "A Non-Negotiable Blues Catharsis: Billie and Ursa Lady Sings the Blues and Corregidora" @default.
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