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Charcoal Face Paint
10/03/2024 By Joy Lynn Clark Below are my favorite songs off of “Blackface The Album”.
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Things
By Joy Lynn Clark 06/17/2024 I wrote this song sixteen years ago as I was watching the tale of the “infamous” Burr Oak Cemetary scandal https://daisyfriday.net/burr-oak-on-the-colored-side/ unfold on the local Chicago news. I still had not known that I had ancestors buried there but I was asking around. As I heard the story, my mind drifted off about vampires, zombies, and grave robbers. Things is part of a larger work that I was going to make a, “rock opera”. I never managed to finish it but, there are a few more tunes. I also arranged the original duet to a solo. I never got my settlement. Below is a palatable,…
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Meds / Live With this
By Joy Lynn Clark 5/14/2018 I wrote this song a number of years ago. I ended up producing it around 2016 or 2017. Have a listen. Special Acknowledgment to Dave Grohl, Mos Def and Boogie Down Productions
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Jazz Round’ Midnight: Soundtrack To My Life
By Joy Lynn Clark 12/11/2017 Charlie Parker’s music is the soundtrack to my life; familiar and always playing in the background. The memories run through my mind like scenes from a movie. As I listened to, “Jazz Round Midnight”, and considered the history, these are my impressions. I was listening to Embraceable You when I started to do a search online. My first hit was an article about a lost baby, a bottle, and a promise to come home. Was he just trying to sleep? I lost my connection right when I got to the part about the sculpture of a head. Then I skimmed another review about Charlie Parker from a black…
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Sexual Freedom In The New World : A Response To Lavrin and El Saffar
By Joy Lynn Clark 10/30/2017 When I was in college, I took a Latin American Women Writers course. As I have mentioned in past posts, I got heated. In so many ways I could identify with these writers. I am going to give my Latin Studies professor a break (lol) and publish some of these papers. This particular paper was my response to, “Rapture Encaged, The Supression of the Feminine in Western Culture” (Routledge, London and New York) by Ruth Anthony El Saffar. The other reading was, “International Feminisms: Latin American Alternatives” (Blackwell Publishers Ltd.) by Asuncion Lavrin. 10/30/2017 After reading the two histories by Lavrin and El Saffar I immediately notice that sex…
