Nina Simone in Concert

dominant sources of leadership and influence. Nina Simone led an influential and successful life as a musical artist, especially during the civil rights movement. Her music fused genres of classical, soul, rhythm and blues, and jazz to create a completely unique, uncategorizable style of music. Her contralto voice and distinguished musical style made her easily recognizable and popular to a diverse, global audience during the 60s and 70s. Although Simone is often omitted from historical recounts of

The Case of Nina Simone She loved Bach, Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven, and Schubert. She trained nearly 8 hours a day to become a classical pianist. She would go on to become the ‘High Priestess of Soul’. Eunice Kathleen Waymon, or as the world famously knows her, Nina Simone, never wanted to be a jazz musician. She believed that her role in society was to be the first African American classical pianist in America. Durkheim’s theory of forced division of labor can be used to explain why this never became

Strange Fruit is a poem written by Abel Meeropol and was later performed by the famous Billie Holiday, Nina Simon, and recently sampled by Kanye West. The poem started off by Meeropol seeing a picture, taken by Lawrence Beitler, of two colored men being lynched that haunted him for days and lamentably inspired him to write Strange Fruit. Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were the two colored men hauled out of jail by a multitude of Caucasians and were lynched the night of August 7, 1930. Additionally

Questions that could be used in interviewing musicians. 
 1. When and why did you start playing? I started to sing in a choir at the age of 5. I have always expressed myself through music, so my mom got me into the choir as soon as I was old enough to be able to sing Lyrics. 
 2. Which instruments do you play? My voice is my main instrument. But I do play a little bit of guitar and piano when I 'm writing new songs, or when I haven 't got an instrumentalist who can back me up.
 3. What was the first

about the racism, and they did it with music among other things. A Raisin in the Sun has many correlations to classic Motown songs and was used to show how prevalent racism was in that time and moving forward. The whole family feels trapped like Nina Simone and her song,”I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to Be Free.” They have the drive to better themselves and are willing to say what they want to people who try to keep them down. When Mama buys the new house, Ruth is very

On Wednesday, February seventeenth, I had the pleasure of attending Noteworthy’s concert at the Meyer-Mclean Theater. Noteworthy is an a capella group from Brigham Young University, and is composed entirely of female students. Though only one of the girls is a music major, all share an incredible love of music, and it showed in their thoughtful, energetic performance. Rather than having a theme for their concert, the nine singers of Noteworthy performed a wide variety of songs from different eras

In 1963, a month after Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech rang harmonies of freedom and equality throughout the United States, Klan members set off dynamite in the sixteenth Baptist Church. The resulting explosion and compromise in the integrity of the building killed four girls. These girls, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNarr were the victims of this atrocity. The events that followed furthered the bloodshed. Thousands of black protestors flooded the streets

fighting for their basic human rights, to be equal, and to be free. Many would express their feelings through different types of mediums, usually music. Five artists, I found to do this were Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, and Nina Simone. Their music became anthems of the movement and gave hope and power their listeners. These artists have become icons of the movement with their powerful words. With his soulful voice and good looks, Sam Cooke is a great example of a musician who

For centuries music, has been an essential part of society, it has provided entertainment for the masses for generations. However, around the 1960s music became something more than just entertainment something more than just something to sing and dance to, but a platform for self-expression and an avenue for the social movements of time. Music enables activism and social justice to be brought to the forefront whether consumers like it or not. At its very core music is art and how those artists over

The period after World War II was full of social unrest and frustration in the United States. Black Americans who fought for this country experienced greater freedoms overseas than they did when they returned home. Systemic and social racism actively oppressed Black Americans in the forms of Jim Crow laws, segregated public transportation and schools, and general treatment as second class citizens by their white counterparts. The sentiments of anger and frustration over the lack of basic human rights