Dear Black Music Month: A Love Letter To The Healing Power Of Songs
Music isn't background noise. For so many of us, it's the thread woven through every significant moment of our lives. The post Dear Black Music Month: A Love Letter To The Healing Power Of Songs appeared first on MadameNoire.
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In honor of Black Music Month, I believe it is necessary to give flowers to my very favorite medium of expression: music.
Coming from a musical family — and having multiple symbols of music tattooed on my skin — I know intimately that few things can capture the full spectrum of human emotion the way music does. And I mean the full spectrum. The kind of range that makes you laugh, ugly cry, throw your hands up, and feel seen, all within the same three minutes and forty-two seconds.
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Music isn’t background noise. For so many of us, it’s the thread woven through every significant moment of our lives. It’s the song playing on the night you fell in love, the one that got you through the worst morning of your life, the one you can’t hear anymore without being teleported right back to that place, that person, that version of yourself. A good friend of mine described it perfectly when he said, “A song can be a marker for a time, event, person, or experience. It’s an emotion creator.”
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