Open AccessThe Meaning of Black Music
Author(s) -
Byrd Donald
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of non‐white concerns in personnel and guidance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2164-4950
pISSN - 0090-5461
DOI - 10.1002/j.2164-4950.1976.tb00345.x
Subject(s) - black music , pride , loneliness , meaning (existential) , consciousness , anger , jazz , white (mutation) , aesthetics , art , psychology , visual arts , social psychology , movement (music) , psychotherapist , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , political science , law , gene
Donald Byrd is an internationally acclaimed jazz musician and has recorded over twenty albums. In this article he clearly states that Black music is an expression of the Black experience or the reality of Black life. Counseling, a process that engages the experience of the person(s) counseled, ignores an important expressive outlet Blacks have used in their struggle for survival. Dr. Byrd's article also outlines the dimensions of the Black aesthetic inherent in Black music. Black music is a manifestation of Black people, and if counselors are to understand Black people and facilitate their growth, they must listen to and understand the love, hurt, joy, despair, loneliness, pride, anger, and consciousness in Black music.