The song a have chosen to write about is from the musical Memphis. The musical and the song is based on the life of Dewey Philips. Dewey Philips was the first Dj to play black music in the 1950s. In the song, he explains who he was thought never to go to the black part of the town. But he falls in love with not just the black music but a young black woman. The story shows how people who supported black rights were treated. He got fired, almost lost his mother and got beaten half to death. But he doesn’t stop fighting for black people’s rights. The song the music of my soul is how a young person in the grows up listing to black music and thinks how can people the makes something so beautiful be worth less than himself. Basically, a young man
