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Abstract
This study applies the work of Danilo Pérez and The Danilo Pérez Foundation, to the rural south using folk music and traditions as a means for education and advocacy. By utilizing folk music to teach and reinforce ideas that are recurrent in the history of rural communities across the Americas like labor organization, civil rights, and land stewardship, these communities can educate and advocate for themselves in the face of persistent struggle. Using the work of Pauli Murray as a guide for my own community, this project explores how an organization inspired by the Danilo Pérez Foundation could place music as an important tool for solving a wide variety of the issues we face in the south, in the Americas, and in the world.
Publication Date
7-1-2024
Campus
Boston Campus
Recommended Citation
Fleenor, Jacob. “Hope is a Song in a Weary Throat.” Master's thesis, Berklee College of Music, 2024. https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-global-jazz/161.