JAZZ WAS ONCE CALLED “JUNGLE MUSIC”……And that wasn’t an accident…..before jazz was celebrated as “America’s greatest art form,”…..it was mocked, disrespected, and racially labeled “jungle music.”….that term wasn’t about sound…..it was about Black people…..in the early 1900s, White critics and media used “jungle music” to paint Black musicians as:
Primitive…..wild…..uncivilized…..less intelligent…..and all rooted in racist ideas meant to separate Black creativity from “serious” art.
The Truth They Didn’t Teach…..Jazz was:…..highly complex…..built on theory, improvisation, and discipline……influenced by African rhythms, blues, and spirituals…..created by brilliant Black musicians…..and yet…..White America……loved the music…..and feared the people and tried to control the narrative
The Hypocrisy…..Black musicians were often……barred from the same clubs they performed in…..paid less than white performers copying their sound…..and marketed using racist “jungle” imagery to entertain White audiences
Even Duke Ellington……one of the greatest composers in U.S. history….was forced into fake “African jungle” branding at the Cotton Club.
Who Profited?…..White-owned…..Record labels……Clubs….Radio stations….Film studios
Meanwhile, Black creators:……Rarely owned their masters….and….were denied long-term wealth…..were excluded from credit and control…..this wasn’t just music history…..it was economic theft…..and…..
Why Schools Skip This Part?…….because telling the full story means admitting…..Jazz was born in Black struggle…..racism shaped how it was labeled……America profited while dehumanizing its creators…..it’s easier to say “Jazz is American”…..than to say “America mistreated the people who created it.”….and there are…..
The Takeaway…..Jazz didn’t come from a jungle……it came from genius…..calling it “jungle music” was a way to……dismiss Black intelligence…..control Black success…..and rewrite cultural ownership……Black music built American culture…..even when Black humanity was denied.
FOR THE FUTURE…..The term “Karen”……has now been changed and replaced to….. “Pam”…..thank you for your support and paying attention to this very important matter.
I WATCHED…..A video of the Philadelphia Black Panther Party….patrolling an area….keeping it safe….armed and provided a food stand….for “Anyone” who is hungry….now I remember a priest in Florida feeding the hungry and homeless….and he was arrested for doing just that….now was that only a Florida law….or was it country wide…..and if so…..how come ICE or whomever is not running up into “That Black neighborhood” arresting people for doing the same as the priest?
A TEENAGER IN FRANCE CAN MENTALLY TIME TRAVEL…..Fewer than 100 people on Earth are known to live with this condition…..it is called Hyperthymesia….or Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory…..people who have it can recall the events of their lives with extraordinary detail…..sometimes down to the weather…..conversations…..or what they felt on a specific day years ago…..for this teenager…..known as TL, memory is not just recall…..it is a place she can mentally enter…..she describes stepping into a bright white inner world where moments from her life are carefully arranged……some hang like photographs……others sit on shelves…..everything has a position based on time, location, and emotion…..instead of searching blindly, she can move through this mental space and go straight to what she wants to relive….when TL revisits a memory, it can feel complete and immediate…..she may see, hear, and sense it again almost as if it is happening now…..if something is too painful, she imagines locking it inside a chest and walking into another room…..this helps her control her attention and her emotions…..what especially surprised researchers is that TL reports something even more unusual…..she can imagine future events with the same structure and intensity…..scientists call this episodic future thinking…..it is the mind’s ability to project itself forward in time…..building scenes of things that have not happened yet…..by studying how TL organizes her memories, researchers are learning more about how the brain builds identity and keeps track of personal history…..memory may not be a simple recording of the past…..it may work more like a landscape we travel through, constantly arranging and rearranging who we are…..in case you want to more about this….the case was described in the journal Neurocase by psychologists Maria A. Brandimonte and Giuliana Mazzoni…..their work offers a rare glimpse into how human consciousness can structure time itself.
TRUMP THREATENS TO BLOCK OPENING OF NEW US-CANADA BRIDGE….So what?….Canadians don’t want to visit the states anyway….and there is something called…a airport.