By Joan CartwrightWith Maynard Eaton, Jay Edwards,

Stella Timmons, Jim Harrison and a Host of other Familiars in the Know

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Music To Sing Our Sorrows

The last sentence of the first

paragraph of Hugh Masekela’s

book, Still Grazing, holds the seed

for the book I Am writing about the

music called “jazz” that brought an

entire enslaved nation of people out

of human bondage.

The music is my passion. Ownership

of it is another subject altogether.

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As a student of Communications, I was guided to research the signs and symbols of language. Semiotics is the science of signs and symbols, so I Am a semiotician, when it comes to the music of jazz, blues, hip hop and possibly all of the music that I’ve listened to in my years of listening.

Travel, too, expanded my cognition of language. I spent spans of time in Italy, Switzerland, England, Spain, Austria, France, Germany, and time enough to have heard the language of Bahamians, Bermudans, Curacaos, Mexicans, Gambians, Ghanaians and South Africans.

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