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Jazz Round’ Midnight: Soundtrack To My Life (Charlie Parker album review)
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…
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Onit
Onit by Dazee Dizzle
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Buried alive
By Joy Lynn Clark 10/14/2014 Buried Alive by Dazee Dizzle – lyrics at the end Buried Alive Why’d you bury me here? Got no car in my name Call my tribe by the chief Should I turn the other cheek? I just wanna be siditty And party in the city But I am destruction I bring the pain and I am desire Bringing the rain And I am the flood And I am the new And I am death Coming for you And I’m shining my chrome Wanna send me off But I’m right at home Wanna color code me No they can’t behold me So they all must die…
