Research Project

My research paper is going to be about how The Help details the Civil Rights Movement and fight for freedom throughout history. I will do this by mapping the growth of black music and culture in a comparative way to the movie. I am very excited to write about this because I am taking a different approach to the history of African Americans in America. Also, as a pianist, it will be good to research the history of music genres such as jazz and the blues. On the site for one of my sources It describes how old slave songs were reworded during the Civil Rights Movement. One of the songs they sample is one that my choir is working on. It is called “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho”. The old one seems more chant or church like but the one we are working on was redone in a jazzy style. I am interested in what information I can find to support my ideas.  This will possibly benefit my future in music as well. I will be taking jazz lessons next semester because I have had an interest in jazz for the longest time. One of my professors says it is a good asset to have as a musician. I would also like to find out the difference between jazz and blues. I would also like to see how they are related. My topic was slightly difficult to figure out at first. I think that I am on the right track now that I figured out how to link music with The Help. I try to relate everything to music.  It sounds obsessive but I think that it is fun when I can find relations to everything. It is like how people find a specific song that they love because it relates to their experiences or emotions. The only hard part now is figuring out how to stretch the info into 8 pages. Hmmm. Hooray. 

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