{"id":176472532,"date":"2017-04-07T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176472532"},"modified":"2017-04-07T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T02:28:00","slug":"audio-womens-love-rights-anthems-from-mentors-and-muses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2017\/04\/07\/audio-womens-love-rights-anthems-from-mentors-and-muses\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: women\u2019s love rights: anthems from mentors and muses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/jalylah-01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176472533\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/jalylah-01.jpg\" alt=\"jalylah-01\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/jalylah-01.jpg 500w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/jalylah-01-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/jalylah-01-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>JALYLAH<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>women\u2019s love rights:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>anthems from<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 36pt; color: #000000;\"><strong>mentors and muses<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/314648846&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI Want to Be Evil\u201d Eartha Kitt<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cYou Got the Love\u201d Chaka Khan \/ \u201cI Like Sex\u201d Marsha Warfield <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDon&#8217;t Call Her No Tramp\u201d Betty Davis<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGive It \u201c RAMP <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWomen&#8217;s Love Rights\u201d Laura Lee<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSince I Laid My Burden Down\u201d Lawanda Page<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis Is It\u201d Millie Jackson <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cJasper Country Man\u201d Bobbi Humphrey \/ \u201cThat Day\u201d Nikki Giovanni <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGet You Somebody New\u201d Labelle<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI&#8217;ve Never Been To Me\u201d Randy Crawford<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cShare My Love\u201d Gloria Jones \/ \u201cAugust 2014 Interview\u201d Mickalene Thomas<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cDo The Funky Do\u201d Sister Sledge<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHa Ha Ha\u201d The Sisters Love <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWomen&#8217;s Lib\u201d Lyn Collins<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI Take My Fire With Me\u201d Lea Roberts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This mix was commissioned by Spelman College Museum of Fine Art in conjunction with the exhibit &#8216;Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities&#8217; on view February 9 \u2013 May 20, 2017. \u2018women\u2019s love rights: anthems from mentors and muses,\u2019 convenes black women\u2019s irreverent and inspired assertions of freedom, with emphasis on the revolutionary crucible of the 1970s. Like the blues women of a previous generation, these black women musicians and comedians were chiefly expressing what Angela Davis called \u201csovereignty in sexual matters,\u201d a heavy but hushed component of freedom pursued in my manuscript, Capacity for Laughter: Black Women and the American Comedic Tradition, and long aired in the artwork of Mickalene Thomas. &#8216;women\u2019s love rights&#8217; includes some artists featured in the current installation, some artists who have provided titular inspiration to Thomas\u2019 past works and some artists whose style and self-possession reflects that of Thomas\u2019 past subjects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Follow this link more details on the exhibit: <a title=\"http:\/\/museum.spelman.edu\/exhibitions\/mickalene-thomas-mentors-muses-celebrities\/\" href=\"https:\/\/exit.sc\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmuseum.spelman.edu%2Fexhibitions%2Fmickalene-thomas-mentors-muses-celebrities%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">museum.spelman.edu\/exhibitions\/mic\u2026es-celebrities\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jalylah\/mentorsmuses\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/jalylah\/mentorsmuses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; JALYLAH women\u2019s love rights: anthems from mentors and muses \u201cI Want to Be Evil\u201d Eartha Kitt \u201cYou Got the Love\u201d Chaka Khan \/ \u201cI Like Sex\u201d Marsha Warfield \u201cDon&#8217;t Call Her No Tramp\u201d Betty Davis \u201cGive It \u201c RAMP \u201cWomen&#8217;s Love Rights\u201d Laura Lee \u201cSince I Laid My Burden Down\u201d Lawanda Page \u201cThis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176472532"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176472532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176472532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176472537,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176472532\/revisions\/176472537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176472532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176472532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176472532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}