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Coming to Genre Part Four: Songs in Conversation (the Burkean Jam)
What We Sing About When We Sing About Love
Forgive the long runway for this installment. We’ll return to the strategies of the earlier parts–the kaleidoscopic, Grammar B-inflected amalgam of biography, cultural history, close reading of lyrics, and glossing of many video clips (with a few personal anecdotes)--after I lay out a number of frames and contexts before the in-flight programming begins.
In earlier installments I put forward a claim that an epideictic purpose drives the pop love song, performing praise (and blame) of prospective, current, and past lovers and also implicitly praising youth’s capacity to feel strong emotions, the full range including love, longing, desire, jealousy, regret, loneliness, or any soul-stirring emotion associated with the trials and tribulations of youth. I won’t back off that claim. I will add, though, as many of you might remember me saying in pedagogy sessions, that all rhetoric worthy of analysis incorporates, in a dynamic though often understated balance, all three kinds of rhetoric Aristotle describes, the deliberative pointing to future action, the forensic judging of past action, and the epideictic assigning of praise and blame in the present. T
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“Silly Love Songs” Music Video – Valentine Tribute to Silenced Heroes by Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Silly Love Songs, the Paul & Linda McCartney classic, has been released by 7-time Grammy Award Winners, Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. in a new music video tribute from the couple’s bestselling EE1 BMG album, blackbird: Lennon-McCartney Icons, a “Civil Rights are Human Rights” recording project, honoring Black History Month.
“We lift our voices in honor of those whose voices have been silenced. When people become iconic in death, we fail to appreciate the great loss of happy, loving moments. Their joy and laughter is forgotten,” said Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr., who are named by Clive Davis as the ‘First Couple of Pop & Soul,’ in a joint statement. “Our project’s theme is that Civil Rights are Human Rights … in this month of history, we share it with all of our brothers and sisters. This music is for the Silly Love Songs our ‘blackbirds’ of every color will never be able to sing.”
It’s a time of Renaissance for Marilyn & Billy, who are featured in the Oscar and Grammy-nominated film, &
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