Psychopathic Police Brutality - Brother Air's Psychopathic Therapy Sessions (Viewer Discretion)

[Viewer Discretion is Advised] Video recorded at “Brother Air’s Psychopathic Therapy Sessions” event on December 5, 2015 at The-Valt in Essex Studios, Cincinnati, OH.

Featuring:
Brother Air: Drums, Percussion
Prof. Spira: Trombone, Electrobone, Keyboard, Percussion, Vocals
J.D. Allen: Tenor Saxophone
Eddie Brookshire: Bass
Video Editing by Prof. Spira
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A Collection of Material from “Jazz as Protest Music” Lecture and Discussion (From MUS 2253 Intro to Jazz, 2018, Ohio State University, Prof. Spira - Instructor)

1. One definition of the term politics is, "the art or science concerned with winning and holding control over a government" or dominating force. How important is it for musical artists to be aware of the political circumstances that surround them in order to express their views through art?
2. Is all music political in nature? Even if an artist avoids making politically-inspired music, can this decision to ignore social issues be viewed as a political act? Explain.
3. Protest music or the music of resistance is the use of music in politics and as politics. Propaganda may be defined as the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or person. What is the difference between protest music and music used for propaganda? What are some examples of each?

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“Strange Fruit”
Lyrics by Abel Meeropol
(Billie Holiday - Famous Recording 1939)

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

Watch: https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk
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Original poem written by Abel Meeropol (1903-86) in 1937
-Jewish American school teacher from the Bronx
-Poem protested American racism & US Lynching practices
-Metaphor links a tree’s fruit with lynching victims

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Don't Let It Happen Here
By Charles Mingus

One day they came and they took the communists people,
And I said nothing because I was not a communist.
Then one day they came and they took the people of the Jewish faith,
And I said nothing because I was not a jew.

One then one day they came and they took the unionists,
And I said nothing because I was not a unionist.

One day they burned down the Catholic churches.
And I said nothing because I was born a Protestant.

Then one day they came and they took me.
And I could say nothing because I was guilty as they were,
I was as guilty of genicide as those who killed the 18 million people
Along with me.

I was guilty for not speaking out and saying that all men have a right to freedom.

Watch Here: https://youtu.be/6WO0PJIAOg4

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Fables of Faubus by Charles Mingus

Oh, Lord, don't let 'em shoot us!
Oh, Lord, don't let 'em stab us!
Oh, Lord, no more swastikas!
Oh, Lord, no more Ku Klux Klan!

Name me someone who's ridiculous, Dannie.
Governor Faubus!
Why is he so sick and ridiculous?
He won't permit integrated schools.
Then he's a fool! Boo! Nazi Fascist supremists!

Boo! Ku Klux Klan (with your Jim Crow plan)
Name me a handful that's ridiculous, Dannie Richmond.
Faubus, Rockefeller, Eisenhower

Why are they so sick and ridiculous?
Two, four, six, eight: They brainwash and teach you hate.

H-E-L-L-O, Hello.

Watch: https://youtu.be/QT2-iobVcdw
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John Coltrane’s “Alabama” | Response to the 16th street Baptist Church bombing by the KKK on Sept. 15, 1963 that killed 4 black American girls. Watch: https://youtu.be/aiJ_0gp-T9A

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Archie Shepp (b. 1937), tenor saxophonist
-Fire Music (1965); See: https://youtu.be/1PRvjhqzLZI

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"Max Roach We Insist!" (1960)
Featuring Abbey Lincoln (vocals)
Freedom Now Suite: https://youtu.be/8Zyw4TWbgtE
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Ornette Coleman (1930-2015)
-Watch "Free Jazz": https://youtu.be/xbZIiom9rDA

Art Ensemble of Chicago (AEC): https://youtu.be/z_U96i763zk
Sun Ra and the musicians in his “Arkestra”: https://youtu.be/6ioFrtlNXZk
-Pioneer of the influential Afrofuturistic cultural aesthetic and philosophy.
Amiri Baraka - “It's Nation Time (Pull the Covers Off)”: https://youtu.be/WxV8YO524jM
The Last Poets: https://youtu.be/rLt6mKaZkDc & https://youtu.be/9V4DxMGlWhU
Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935-77): Watch “Volunteered Slavery”: https://youtu.be/-6ryVryFnEY
Pharoah Sanders - Karma (1969): https://youtu.be/RyIPmmCmIb0
John Coltrane Interstellar Space: https://youtu.be/RyIPmmCmIb0