humanity
Humanity topics include pieces on the real lives of music professionals, amateurs, inspiring students, celebrities, lifestyle influencers, and general feel good human stories in the music sphere.
Good Deeds in F# Major
It's time. It was an idea at first now I have reached this moment. I've colored it with sound and silence. I anticipate what I am. Have I always been a sight-reader? I rarely sat and digested each measure in my life. I looked into the future, never appreciating nor living the present.
By Ricardo Marquez5 years ago in Beat
Taylor Swift is a Master Storyteller & this is how she Inspired me to be One. Top Story - January 2021.
I have grown up listening to Taylor Swift songs. I was 13 years old when I heard ‘Love Story’ for the first time and fell in love with Taylor Swift’s rendition of Romeo and Juliet’s love story.
By Monisha Sen5 years ago in Beat
David Bowie Taught Me to Be Queer
The following was originally posted to facebook on January 11 2016, one day after the death of David Bowie. ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦ "When I was 14 and trapped in small-town suburban hell, before I even knew the name David Bowie, this image glowed at me through a jewel case on a rack of CDs.
By Xavier Ames5 years ago in Beat
Musical Mundanity
I remember when the world made music. That was what he said. It wasn’t so much what he said, but how he said it. Not in a nostalgic way; in the way a young man does when challenged by an older man who feels his advanced age and experience holds some kind of authority over the young; or, even worse, that the lack of age and experience makes the young of lesser consequence. But of course, no one was there to make such a challenge. It was only he and I. And I thought, but the world still makes music, Grandpa.
By Adam Patrick5 years ago in Beat
How Music By The Newton Brothers Helps Calm My Mental Health
Mental health: a topic that isn’t spoken about enough. The coronavirus pandemic: something is so widely spoken about. It is there when you go to sleep. It is there when you close your eyes. It is there when you wake up. What do you get when you combine mental health and a pandemic ripped to a million pieces by the media? A great big crushing war with yourself.
By Lewis Jefferies5 years ago in Beat
12 Houses . Top Story - January 2021.
There's a corner in my home that has been a bedrock of my childhood but strangely has lived in many different houses. This “corner” has traveled with me over the years and transforms any new unfamiliar house into a home. My family and I moved around a lot when I was growing up, 12 times to be exact, but my thoughtful parents were always able to provide me with this cozy corner and avenue of creativity and escape.
By Natalie Spack5 years ago in Beat
Down to the Crossroads
Down to the Crossroads My Journey into the Delta The Heaviest Music in the World Worn fingers, slide down the steel strings caressing the neck of the weathered metal dobro, coaxing the sounds of God, love, the Devil and regret from the depths of a soul. Wandering gypsy guitar players rode the rails from the South to the North, pursuing the big city dream, driven by forces that raged from a lifetime of being told you were no good. That you were a nigger, a coon, a spade, something to be hunted down and hung from a tree, spit on in the street, kicked to the curb and oppressed for no reason other than the color of your skin. Your ancestor's ragged cries from the whip and iron, ring resolutely in your mind and your heart and the pain of a tortured past is never far from you. The music that came forth from this delirious pain, was called the Devil’s music. A form of spirited gut-wrenching music that told tales of heartache and triumph and became the soundtrack for a history marred by slavery and racism.
By Glenn Marais5 years ago in Beat
