Wynton at Harvard, Chapter 2: Understanding the American Identity Through Sonic Metaphors
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Delve into Wynton Marsalis's six-part Harvard University lecture series, covering a range of topics including jazz, what it means to be American, and the importance of cultural literacy and the arts in the liberal arts education.
II. Understanding the American Identity Through Sonic Metaphors
In this chapter, Wynton asserts that art gets to the essence of what it means to be human and that jazz gives insight into what it means to be American.
Go to jazz.org/wyntonatharvard for the complete series.
"Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music" is a series of six lectures delivered at Harvard University between 2011 and 2014 sponsored by the Office of the President and Provost. The inaugural lecture, “Music as Metaphor,” was delivered in Sanders Theatre to a capacity crowd. It is an interpretation of the many unobserved symbols in American music and an investigation into how they illuminate the democratic process.
It covers many of the fundamental devices, forms, and songs that bind the different Americas together at the root. It is Marsalis's contention that "'Me vs. You' and 'Us vs. Y'all'-vs. 'All of Us'-remains the struggle at the heart of humankind and the central debate of our Constitution. How do we achieve a common ground when individual victories are so much more valued? This conundrum has been resolved harmoniously in our musical arts for more than a century. Under the vibrant din of our democracy, on the lower frequencies, sonic metaphors speak to and for us all. What they tell us about what it means to be American could serve us well in these divisive and uncivil times."
Performances by Marsalis's ensemble (with special guest, the iconic fiddler Mark O'Connor) punctuate the lecture with musical explanations.
Mark O’Connor - fiddle
Walter Blanding - reeds
James Chirillo - guitar
Dan Nimmer - piano
Carlos Henriquez - bass
Ali Jackson - drums
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Finally, youtube’s algorithm did something helpful. This series is pure gold.
Keep up the great work. These lectures are amazing not just musically but also in meaning. Thank you.
Brilliant man, musician and educator. What a wonderful series. I love how Mr Marsalis genuinely loves all types of music.
Its.. This... This is the greatest piece of anything ever made...
"Meaning is the essence of an art." I can see why some would feel that way. But as a lover of music and art and as a songwriter, sometimes art that doesn't mean much of anything can be very powerful. I think really, when you boil off all the excess, the absolute essence of art is feeling. If art doesn't make you feel anything, then it can't be art. Some art makes you laugh. Some makes you cry. Art can be bleak and ugly as well as beautiful and transcendent. But it always makes you feel something. Just my feelings.
I think you have missed the point to come back to it and re-state it in your own words my friend.
@@BeKindToBirds What? You think I've missed the point because I restated something in my own words? I don't follow. The point is very simple. Feeling is the essence of art. It's not meaning. Art can be meaningless and still be good art. What point have I missed?
@@PaulTheSkeptic You are missing what inspires feeling: meaning. There is no feeling without meaning behind it.
Seems to me you got caught up in trying to outsmart Mr. Marsalis and missed the point he was conveying, it struck me immediately as the typical mistake of the young student but of course we are all young students in the end so don't get too caught up in the description.
We all have been there before, myself included. It is nothing to be ashamed of unless you get stuck in it.
Your own post sussed you out, you circled around it and arrived right back at his point: something without meaning cannot inspire feeling. You dismissed his statement as wrong and then verified it with your own deduction, ...you missed the point.
I hope that makes it more clear, cheers.
you're arguing semantics when all you really need is to feel and to be felt...
@@BeKindToBirds It's just my opinion man. You can take it or leave it.
Beautifully said :)
Yeah, that audience definitely didn't deserve this
Brilliant ❤🇱🇰❤👍👍‼️🌎🪪🌎🏏🇱🇰
2:51 (subtitles are little funky here)
It was lost AND stolen.