New Ideas are Intriguing

For Instance:

The idea that African-Americans used music as a way to voice their opinions and give themselves a voice. The idea that music is a good way to display emotion and culture is not a new one. In fact people have been doing this since music had been created. What's more interesting to me is the fact that this was the African-American community's only means of having their voices heard. They wrote novels and had memoirs at the time of course, but it wasn't reaching nearly as far an audience as their swing music movement did. By adopting swing culture as their own, the white community took one step closer to integration, a move I know many of the white community did not want, but it was a necessary step towards equal rights. That's what I found most interesting about this past week's readings and classes. Plus the music is fantastic....