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"Revival" (music by Bobby Watson & The I Have a Dream Project) and the contribution to "Ghost Over Water [Kansas City]," Glenn North

Author: Glenn North (with Bobby Watson & The I Have Dream Project)


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This city of song:
Bird gave birth to bebop here.
Now bullets blast loud

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Damaris Z Damaris Z (Jun 24 2019 11:16AM) : What changed the city from a place of song to a place of bullets?
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Mary C Mary C (Nov 12 2020 10:19PM) : Kansas City history is revealing its racist side. [Edited] more

Frustration and anger over racial situations that haven’t improved much. Kansas City has an interesting history but it has been primarily focused on the successes of it’s white citizens. In more recent years the darker, sadder history of Kansas City is being talked about. It’s this history that has created the frustration and anger in the African-American community.

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Damaris Z Damaris Z (Jun 24 2019 12:13PM) : Lots of B's in the first stanza. Alliteration? [Edited]
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Mary C Mary C (Nov 12 2020 10:12PM) : Yes, Damarius, He is using alliteration.
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Emily J Emily J (Feb 03 2021 12:50PM) : I think this is interesting because in the first verse it makes a kind of happy place using music like jazz to say how smooth and amazing it used to be. more

I think this is interesting because in the first verse it makes a kind of happy place using music like jazz to say how smooth and amazing it used to be. But then in the second verse it says it now has been onsite and now the only song the street has is the sound of a gun.

composing dark symphonies
played for liveless brown bodies.

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Emily J Emily J (Feb 03 2021 12:56PM) : It says that the street is now replaced the happy jazz music to the dark symphonies like the gun shots. The gun shots followed the 5 stanza that says that the dark symphonies are for the brown lifeless body’s
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Kansas City knows
terror is a tricky tune.
Like America,

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Damaris Z Damaris Z (Jun 24 2019 11:17AM) : What is meant by "terror is a tricky tune?"
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cristin t cristin t (Apr 24 2020 11:09PM) : i think is mean intense, sharp, overmastering fear.
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Colt K Colt K (Nov 18 2019 1:25AM) : Are you saying terror is a tricky tune as in it is hard to know how to dance to?
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we still want to dance, we just
need to remember the moves.

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Mary C Mary C (Nov 12 2020 10:23PM) : I love the imagery in this line. It creates such a vision of hopefulness.
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Emily J Emily J (Feb 03 2021 12:58PM) : This last stanzas say that the streets like America do want to be like how they were before with the music and the hope. And that the street if it’s given the chance it can remember the old happy ways it used to be before.
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DMU Timestamp: May 31, 2018 00:33

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Katie K Katie K (Jun 14 2018 8:48AM) : This is very cool.
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