During the last year I’ve noticed a trend within the Blues community that’s been happening on the back end of things. As we focus so much on all the things that we wish to see within the world, within ourselves, and within our community in general, we seem to have lost sight of the love […]
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In our scene, Black women are avoided. There is a reason why Black women are among the lowest demographic in the blues/swing dancing communities. And yet, thus far it’s something we’ve refused to talk about because we fear getting pushback for discussing it. So these discussions take place in small group chats and behind the
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I was recently on the Blues Dance World podcast in a conversation about Blackness in blues. Although, we didn’t get as far as I would’ve hoped we didn’t talk a lot about some common experiences of what it maybe like in the scene for community member. I think sometimes people don’t understand if you’re not
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Often when we think of Piedmont leaves we think of West Virginia’s hills and men. The simple fact is Blues is not only men’s music. The women play their own Blues just like the men did. A slight difference comes into how they approach that music. The woman’s Blues is lighter was a slight
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