WOW! Just WOW! Vikki Romero introduced me to Elaine Enriquez and the rest is HERSTORY!
Monday at 8 P.M.
Voice of Inspiration – LIVE transmitted by our station and also through Facebook live! Interesting and pleasant guests of our Christian world.
http://www.musicwomanmagazine.com
Blues was not “slave music [since] . . . Blues musicians, roaming from town to town with guitar[s] . . . could not have existed prior to Emancipation because our people did not enjoy freedom of movement during slavery” (ya Salaam, 1995, p. 30). Therefore, the Blues was a musical genre of people who were prepared for and headed toward liberation.
The Blues women were the sirens of freedom, only reachable after death, according to the spiritualists, whose music remained in the realm of religion. Blues music, labeled by religionists as Devil’s Music, “is a black cultural art form, blues is a ‘living archive,’ a form of ‘recollection’ that provides a ‘coded history of black injury,’ resulting from historically entrenched power relations.”
https://www.academia.edu/10100383/Blues_Women_First_Civil_Rights_Workers
Published in The Pen Women Spring 2022 by the National League of American Penwomen.
Edited by Marcia Dunscomb
It is one thing to read about resilience and people who overcome the hard knocks of life, time and time, again. It is encouraging to know that you can be mentored by someone to lift yourself out of the muck and mire of life. But to have my story included in this phenomenal anthology is beyond motivational for me. Dr. Joy Vaughan has risen to a new height by offering her story of worldwide travel coupled with the stories of accomplished women in the countries where she journeyed. Joy’s book is a testament of the personal power that determined women use to accomplish everything they intend to manifest.
Shanghai, China December 2018
