By Joan Cartwright

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Music To Sing Our Sorrows

• By Joan Cartwright
• With Maynard Eaton, Jay Edwards, Stella Timmons,
  Jim Harrison and a Host of other Familiars in the
  Know

INTERVIEWS
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Music To Sing Our Sorrows

• The last sentence of the first
• paragraph of Hugh Masekelas
• 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 Ive 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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