{"id":208407,"date":"2020-06-06T06:39:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T06:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208407"},"modified":"2020-06-09T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T06:50:19","slug":"liberating-the-american-people-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=208407","title":{"rendered":"Liberating the American People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gilad Atzmon \u2013 gilad.co.uk June 5, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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I am a jazz artist, I have dedicated my entire adult life to the study of Black American music and culture. Jazz is certainly the most important and maybe, the only significant American contribution to world culture. And the next question is, where is Black American jazz now? Why did Black Americans lose interest in their own fantastic creation?<\/h5>\n
One answer is that Jazz was born out of resistance. It was fuelled by defiance of the \u2018American dream\u2019: instead of seeking mammon, wealth and power, our Black artistic founding fathers sacrificed their lives for the sake of beauty. They literally killed themselves searching for new voices, sounds, colours. They left us with a great legacy but their offspring moved on to new artistic domains such as Hip Hop and Rap.<\/h5>\n
For the people who made Jazz into an art form, music was a revolutionary spirit. For Bird, Now\u2019s the Time<\/span><\/a> meant that time was ripe for social change.\u00a0 For John Coltrane, Alabama<\/a><\/span> was the appropriate answer to the KKK\u2019s Baptist Church bombing<\/a><\/span> that killed four African-American<\/span><\/a> girls.<\/h5>\n
Coltrane Plays Alabama: https:\/\/youtu.be\/saN1BwlxJxA<\/span><\/a><\/h5>\n