{"id":15772,"date":"2023-05-23T17:46:43","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T00:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/?p=15772"},"modified":"2023-05-31T07:32:47","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T14:32:47","slug":"blogpost-sharing-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amateurmusic.org\/info\/blogpost-sharing-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing the Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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June is African-American Music Appreciation Month <\/b>and AMN celebrates that Black music is the foundational American music. The centuries-old tradition of singing spirituals has imbued our culture with its fundamental musical character, spreading into the blues and jazz of the early 20th century and beyond, to inspire folk songs, protest songs, and popular music of all kinds. African-American music also excited classical music composers like Dvo\u0159\u00e1k and Debussy, not to mention our home-grown classical artists like Gershwin and Bernstein, inspiring them to incorporate the melodies and rhythmic ideas of Black music into the broad European tradition.<\/p>

So should all Americans, and non-Americans, too, be able to learn this music and participate with joy in singing spirituals? It seems simple\u2014and yet\u2026<\/p>

Some of us feel sensitive about these boundaries, and personally I don\u2019t want to misstep. Does it appropriate someone else\u2019s culture to love singing this music? Can those of us outside the tradition join with our fellow Americans in this fundamentally joyous experience without taking anything away from the personal histories of the enslaved people and their descendants who created this music?\u00a0<\/p>

I stopped by the rehearsal for AMN’s Song Circle<\/a><\/strong> session featuring Cary Sheldon and Dr. Candace Y. Johnson, and I got to hear them running through the traditional spirituals that we\u2019ll be singing on June 7, and also at AMN\u2019s 3rd annual Juneteenth Choral Celebration<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on June 19.<\/p>

We took a quick break to talk for a moment about spirituals, our deep connections to this music, and how we can honor this musical tradition with humility and respect, and with the joy and love that it naturally brings.\u00a0<\/p>

Enjoy this engaging conversation that affirms our love for the music and for singing it together!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Soprano Candace Y. Johnson, DMA, has been on the voice faculty at the University of California-Berkeley since 2009, teaching applied voice classes and a musicology course she designed based on her research and performance of works by African-American composers.<\/em><\/p>

Lolly Lewis is the founder of Amateur Music Network.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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June 2023 events with Amateur Music Network<\/h5><\/div><\/div>

June 7: First Wednesdays Song Circle with Cary Sheldon<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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June 19: Juneteenth Choral Celebration with Candace Johnson and Kev Choice
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June is African-American Music Appreciation Month and AMN celebrates that Black music is the foundational American music. 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