{"id":28531,"date":"2016-03-02T16:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=28531"},"modified":"2016-03-02T16:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:47:30","slug":"bu-today-fighting-segregation-with-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/bu-today-fighting-segregation-with-song\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Today: Fighting Segregation with Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>BU Today<\/em> interviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/faculty\/humanities-faculty\/boots\/\">Cheryl Boots<\/a> (GRS&#8217;94&#8217;00, STH\u201914), senior lecturer of humanities at the Boston University College of General Studies, for an article entitled, \u201cFighting Segregation with Song.\u201d Professor Boots studies the inspirational effect of freedom songs on the civil rights movement. She interviews veterans of the movement about these influences and the songs\u2019 relevance during extremely challenging times. Professor Boots notes her experience studying the influence of music during the slavery era, highlighting some overlap between the messages in songs during civil rights movement, including \u201cideas about developing community, arguing for individual humanity and equality.\u201d When asked about the present significance of these stories, Professor Boots says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of evidence\u2026that in the United States, race continues to be an issue, a question, a debate, and a place where there is great disagreement and, I would say, fear and misunderstanding.<br \/>\nThe way music functioned during the civil rights movement can\u2019t necessarily be replicated today, but by having an understanding of it, we might be able to better understand what\u2019s happening today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Professor Boots suggests that singing as a way to \u201cpromote openness\u201d happens in places missed by news coverage but still has similar tones and purposes to those of the civil rights movement. Professor Boots shares insights about the findings in her book currently titled, <em>Sing When the Spirit Says Sing<\/em>. The research Professor Boots discusses illustrates the complex nature of the civil rights movement and its portrayal through song. Read more at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2016\/civil-rights-movement-freedom-songs\/\">BU Today<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Today interviews Cheryl Boots (GRS&#8217;94&#8217;00, STH\u201914), senior lecturer of humanities at the Boston University College of General Studies, for an article entitled, \u201cFighting Segregation with Song.\u201d Professor Boots studies the inspirational effect of freedom songs on the civil rights movement. She interviews veterans of the movement about these influences and the songs\u2019 relevance during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}