Comments on: Using the N word in the Arts https://conradaskland.com/blog/using-the-n-word-in-the-arts/ Music Director and Music Technology Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: askland https://conradaskland.com/blog/using-the-n-word-in-the-arts/#comment-140304 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:21:35 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/01/using-the-n-word-in-the-arts/#comment-140304 Good to hear from you DouGlas. The Muse is my favorite all time place to hang out, jam and talk about the arts. What a perfectly wonderful place it is. I hope it lives forever.

Regarding this older post on the “n word” – it has been very interesting to watch young hip hop artists discuss this and work out their thoughts on it. More important than the conclusions artists draw is the face that they are actively discussing it. That’s a good thing in my book.

]]> By: DouGlas https://conradaskland.com/blog/using-the-n-word-in-the-arts/#comment-140289 Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:55:57 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2007/01/using-the-n-word-in-the-arts/#comment-140289 Conrad: I so enjoyed playing guitar and singing with you one early June night (2006 maybe?) in Conway (Mount Vernon area) at ‘The Muse’ that I saved your name and somehow got a website address, . . . maybe from you. Anyway, I learned not too much later from my keyboardist/accordianist friend Aviathar that you’d moved on and I regrettably didn’t have another opportunity to enjoy joining together musically with you.

So I saw your name in my address book this eve and pasted the website in . . . Wow! I had no idea of your stature — though I might have guessed from the ease of your contributions that eve.

Beyond that, I’m impressed with the sensitivity that you express in the “N” piece I’ve just read and see that there’s more to you than a pretty face, eh? : )

Should you find yourself back in the NW, I’d wish to connect and share a couple of songs that in some ways relate. Unfortunately, after 45 years of music, I don’t have anything more than some draft recordings. Part of my goal is to work with an extremely talented producer who is equally thoughtful and passionate about the often-hidden divine source of our true selves, . . . and can get down.

Best wishes, DouGlas

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