{"id":1236,"date":"2023-11-28T19:55:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/?page_id=1236"},"modified":"2023-11-28T20:40:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:40:33","slug":"social-psychological-violence-through-the-control-of-musical-freedom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/social-psychological-violence-through-the-control-of-musical-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Psychological Violence through the Control of Musical Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Greta Elbers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pull-quotes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese acts of forced performance and control over creative expression were intended to strip African Americans\u2019 of control over their own self-definition, depriving them of hope, perseverance and intellectual freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intentional personification exemplified through the lyrics of \u201cWithout a Song\u201d through the use of African American dialect, syntax, and diction, demonstrate Eliscu and Youmans\u2019 attempt at controlling public perceptions of African Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout American history, while Whites have encouraged performance under their supervision, African Americans have found a way to create community, build meaningful relationships, and enforce positive self-image and definition despite the constant battle to undermine their existence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Author Intro: \u201cSocial Psychological Violence through the Control of Musical Freedom\u201d is an analytical essay which illuminates structural violence theory through the examination of how music has been used as a tool of subjugation of African Americans both through appropriation and the control of musical freedom. This paper attempts to highlight the ways in which music has been used by African Americans as a tool of resistance, resilience, and joy while simultaneously being used by Whites as a tool of control, and domination.<\/p>\n<p>This paper was written in the fall of 2020 in Professor Jennifer Bess\u2019 class, \u201cPower &amp; Privilege in the United States\u201d where we were tasked with finding a primary text from the Jim Crow or Antebellum periods which we could use to demonstrate David Gil\u2019s theory of structural violence. The primary text that I chose is titled \u201cWithout a Song\u201d and came from the 1920\u2019s musical Great Day. I chose to shape my analysis around two primary aspects of \u201cWithout a Song,\u201d the lyrics, and the performance. My intention through this paper was to show the history of the use and abuse of African American creativity in song, dance, and performance for the entertainment of Whites in order to create an argument for breaking this cycle finally giving credit where credit is due.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Faculty nominator intro: n\/a (student-submitted)<\/p>\n<p>Read:<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/files\/2023\/11\/Elbers-Social-Psychological-Violence.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Social Psychological Violence through the Control of Musical Freedom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyrights of all Verge articles and editorial material belong to the authors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Greta Elbers Pull-quotes: \u201cThese acts of forced performance and control over creative expression were intended to strip African Americans\u2019 of control over their own self-definition, depriving them of hope, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1236","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1236\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/verge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}