Color Me Joy
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Abstract
My culminating experience project, entitled “Color Me Joy” was a concept album and performance project of seven compositions in which each song addressed a different issue that young women, especially women of color have to struggle through and overcome. The purpose of this project was to look beyond the terms racism and sexism, and address the underlying issues within both subjects, such as identity, body image issues, sexual assault and harassment, the fetishization and objectification of women of color, and how all of these issues negatively affect mental health. I wanted to write music that was uplifting, empowering and joyful, but also reflective, cathartic, and healing. I wanted to discuss the intersectionality of being female and a person of color, and the silencing that so many women like myself feel and have been fighting against for hundreds of years. To enhance this goal further, I wrote spoken word poetry for each composition to be presented between songs along with free improvisation. I wrote this material from the perspective of a biracial woman living in America, because that is what I am, but I wanted all women, especially women of color to be able to relate to this project in some way.
Publication Date
7-1-2018
Campus
Boston Campus
Recommended Citation
Malek, Farayi. “Color Me Joy.” Master's thesis, Berklee College of Music, 2018. https://remix.berklee.edu/graduate-studies-global-jazz/48.
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Project Components: paper (.pdf), presentation (.pdf), album (ZIP file containing 7 .wav files), videos (ZIP file containing 3 .mp4 files).