Speaker 1: One Nation under re groove, getting down just the funk COVID,
Speaker 1: what's happening beat out here? We're here to thrill. The
Speaker 1: Possibility Summit hosted by Nissan and the Black Effect Podcast
Speaker 1: Network and the National African American Museum of Music. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show you my three favorite exhibitions. So we start
Speaker 1: in the wade in the water room. This room symbolizes hope.
Speaker 1: How you say, you got to remember man in the
Speaker 1: early sixteen hundreds, when the first enslaved individuals were brought
Speaker 1: to the United States, they had their own tribal music,
Speaker 1: they had their own sounds, they had their own religion,
Speaker 1: but by the time they got here, all of that
Speaker 1: was beaten out of them. So this music, it's a
Speaker 1: sound of hope. Growing up in the church myself, like
Speaker 1: I could have been out there in the streets, but
Speaker 1: Mama had me in the pews. So I can relate
Speaker 1: to the gospel music and the hope that it provides
Speaker 1: for individuals. But then we transition from hope to survival.
Speaker 1: After the Civil War, were met at a cross roads,
Speaker 1: in the words of our good brothers from Cleveland, meet
Speaker 1: me at the crossroad. See, this room was very important
Speaker 1: This was an introduction to a lot of things. One
Speaker 1: there was an introduction to black folks actually playing music
Speaker 1: that they wanted to play. See, up until this point,
Speaker 1: they were forced to play music just to entertain their overseers.
Speaker 1: But now it was a freedom in the music because
Speaker 1: at this time they were given freedom, but they weren't
Speaker 1: necessarily free. The only way they could express said freedom
Speaker 1: and said sadness and said happiness is in the music.
Speaker 1: That's what founded the blues. Up until that point, it
Speaker 1: was just thought that white folk would never like black
Speaker 1: folk music over there. That wasn't the case. See white
Speaker 1: folk love that blues so much that blues created country
Speaker 1: music as well as jazz as well as hip hop.
Speaker 1: See the Crossroads room. It interconnects communities. It's actual crossroads
Speaker 1: for different cultures. This is the one nation under a
Speaker 1: groove room. You did all jazz. It might be the
Speaker 1: smoothest room in the museum. You did, know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And it just shows how jazz was integrated into Black
Speaker 1: culture that eventually went onto the world. You even got
Speaker 1: white folk over there playing jazz music. They loved the
Speaker 1: jazz and did think about all the storms that were
Speaker 1: birthed from jazz. I mean you think Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong,
Speaker 1: Ella Fitzjernal, Billy Holliday, Miles Davis, jazz music from ragtime
Speaker 1: and mentry shows to civil rights and bebop. You did
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's a blending of the cultures. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what's next in this place. This
Speaker 1: whole exhibit has made me want to just sing, dance.
Speaker 1: But this area is my space. Okay, this is where
Speaker 1: the radio jockeys used to be. You did what I'm
Speaker 1: saying to you. Big shout the Black Folk and radio.
Speaker 1: Big shout to the Black Effect Podcast Network. Big shout too,
Speaker 1: the Thriller Possibility Summit, and big shouts to National African
Speaker 1: American Museum Music right here in Nashville, Tennessee. I'm about
Speaker 1: to keep going around. If you get some free time,
Speaker 1: I think you should come check it out. It's pretty
Speaker 1: dog one dub w D I a signing. Okay, I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I didn't know.