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Akosua: jazzy folk music for the world soul.(SPOTLIGHT)(Brief article)
Like many other student activists at the University of Michigan in 2003, Akosua Asiedua Mireku was disheartened when the U.S. invasion of Iraq began that March. Naturally, the vocalist, composer and self-taught guitarist turned to her music, writing these lines: "I don't want this nation to carry me. Further to bloody hands, deeper to murder I can't see. So I shield my broken heart with my bitter answers and pray for an end to wars of greed."
Creating these poignant lyrics in the anti-war ballad "We Are One" did what her passion for music normally does: it helped her transform hopelessness and overwhelm into beauty and inspiration.
"We have to believe we ...
- world soul
- Reference information from: Webster's NewWorld Dictionary January 1, 1988 700+ words
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary 01-01-1988 world soul a universal animating principle conceived of as analogous to the soul of a person Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.
- world-soul
- Reference information from: The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy SIMON BLACKBURN January 1, 1996 700+ words
world-soul See panpsychism .
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post David Nicholson May 17, 1994 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Mark Jenkins March 22, 1996 700+ words
...of that band's "Happy Nowhere," it would seem he's spied the commercial success of Counting Crows. A collection of jazzy folk-rock ballads, the View's album combines the styles of Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison and other such troubadours in...
- MUSICAL NOTES
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post November 25, 1994 700+ words
...singer/songwriter on the showcase circuit: Prodigal Fredericksburger Dave Goodrich, ex-Mind's Eye, has gone Latin-jazzy folk-pop, and tries it out Sunday at Republic Gardens (with Essentials Deeme Katson, Shep Williams and Michael Ault, Kelley...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Mark Jenkins March 24, 1995 700+ words
...cogent short-story songs in a few lines. Few of her melodies are as striking as the words, however. Sobule's sometimes-jazzy folk-rock is pleasant but unsurprising, and a bit drowsy. Their lyrics aside, songs like "Everyone's a Good Person Inside...
- Buckley's Progeny: Folk-Rock Prodigy
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Mark Jenkins February 18, 1994 700+ words
...being teased by a four-song EP recorded live and solo. Buckley has clearly studied the work of his father, who pioneered a jazzy folk style that later became a major annoyance, but "Live at Sin-e" also suggests that the kid knows the work of Billy Bragg...
- Records; Loch Rockers: The Passionate Proclaimers
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Mark Jenkins January 25, 1989 700+ words
...into the American artery. The Proclaimers, though, don't sound like anyone else, and certainly not like the slick, jazzy folk-rock (Aztec Camera, Orange Juice, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions) first delivered by Postcard. If the duo recalls any...