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Sankofa Song: A New Negro Spiritual for the I.C.E. Age
Sankofa is an African principal of carrying pieces of our past with us to help build a successful future. It’s based on Ghana’s Ashanti Akan tribal proverb “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot”.
This program is an audio-visual musical journey – through the history of the Negro Spiritual, into the realm of its significance in this day and time. In these historic moments, where the priorities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement are reaching to extinguish the constitutional flames of human rights and common decency, this presentation reaches prophetically beyond Race and Culture for a look into the New Face of Freedom – a look that sees a way forward for all people.
SANKOFA SONG is an inspirational, informational, interactive experience that blends Music, Images, Oratorio and Community Singing to refresh and ignite hope and optimism, while focusing intently on an organized response to the emerging threats to our democracy. The themes will examine the nature of identity and belonging; create a hopeful vision for the future of Freedom; and plot a path for organizing ourselves into a unified voice for Equity, Justice and Peace.
THE NEW NEGRO SPIRITUAL PROJECT
THE NEW NEGRO SPIRITUAL PROJECT is a collection of original songs and arrangements that celebrates the root and the fruit of the Traditional Negro Spiritual, transposing it from the contextual focus of “enslaved Africans in America” into a focus that is contemporarily relevant. This transposition is one that represents an evolution of the original Spirit and Message of the Traditional Negro Spiritual into a Message of Freedom that speaks into the present-day context of A Universal Spiritual Relevance for All Humanity. This new music fuses the Traditional Negro Spiritual music medium with elements of the Jazz, Gospel, and Classical idioms and emerges as a uniquely blended expression of Hope, Promise, Divine Connection, and Resurrection.
We are raising funds for the recording, mixing, mastering, digital promotion and live presentation and release of this music for the purpose of :
1) Educating students of all ages about the history of the Negro Spiritual and the presence of its DNA within all of the music that exists today;
2) Creating a conversational forum for The Issues of Race and Freedom in America through the translation of
the Negro Spiritual message and substance into a wider frame of contemporary context that includes a Social, Political, Historic, Economic, and Faith-Based focus;
3) Creating a new context for pursuing and embodying Freedom within the United States of American context and beyond;
Please support the development of this Project by joining our PATREON CIRCLE.
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