How Racism Changed Nina Simone's Career
Nina Simone was a great classical pianists who sang Jazz/Blues too and was accepted by all until she shared her personal convictions in her music. Nina choose to use the venue Carnegie Hall in NYC to promote her new song Mississippi Goddamand professed it to be “a show tune, but the show has not been written for it, yet ( What Happened Miss Simone)”. This was the point when many of her devote Caucasian listeners were turned off by her potent aggressively intrusive reality that many did not want to accept as truth. Those in the north were slow to speak out about the reality of the cruel truth of racism in the south, because it meant admitting they had been blindly looking away or worse just saying, “go …show more content…
This is why after the four children in Birmingham, Al and Medgar Evers were killed Nina could no longer be silent. She wrote Mississippi Goddam. This song became an Anthem for the Civil Rights Movement. She uses Goddam to emphasis how important it is and that you should not be comfortable when confronted with the hatred and murder that is occurring. She is bold in her upbeat dance rhythm as well as her lyrics that speak of the reality of the south and how they say “go slow” as far as concerning the civil rights legislation that was not upheld by law enforcement in the south or our federal government. The words juxtaposed to that upbeat tune is preposterous, because who would dance to this song. The horrors and shame that The United States as a Country is responsible for in this song brings sorrow and tears to those who recognize the inhuman treatment of our fellow citizens not joy and praise as the composed music would lead you to
Nina Simone was a great classical pianists who sang Jazz/Blues too and was accepted by all until she shared her personal convictions in her music. Nina choose to use the venue Carnegie Hall in NYC to promote her new song Mississippi Goddamand professed it to be “a show tune, but the show has not been written for it, yet ( What Happened Miss Simone)”. This was the point when many of her devote Caucasian listeners were turned off by her potent aggressively intrusive reality that many did not want to accept as truth. Those in the north were slow to speak out about the reality of the cruel truth of racism in the south, because it meant admitting they had been blindly looking away or worse just saying, “go …show more content…
This is why after the four children in Birmingham, Al and Medgar Evers were killed Nina could no longer be silent. She wrote Mississippi Goddam. This song became an Anthem for the Civil Rights Movement. She uses Goddam to emphasis how important it is and that you should not be comfortable when confronted with the hatred and murder that is occurring. She is bold in her upbeat dance rhythm as well as her lyrics that speak of the reality of the south and how they say “go slow” as far as concerning the civil rights legislation that was not upheld by law enforcement in the south or our federal government. The words juxtaposed to that upbeat tune is preposterous, because who would dance to this song. The horrors and shame that The United States as a Country is responsible for in this song brings sorrow and tears to those who recognize the inhuman treatment of our fellow citizens not joy and praise as the composed music would lead you to