Gregg, thanx for sharing, Greg, thanx for contributing to the Global 
Bildung Festival and for writing that piece!

Music is the foundation for language and human cognition; keeping a 
rhythm and literally tuning in on others shaped our brains, and it seems 
overlooked in psychology--please correct me if I am wrong.

/ Lene

On 29-03-2022 16:31, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx wrote:
>
> Please check out the latest from Greg Thomas, which involves 
> connecting with Lene…good to see these connections grow!
>
> *Blog - Tune Into Leadership*
>
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> *A Speech: “Bildung and the Blues” 
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>
> /By Greg Thomas on Mar 28, 2022 07:39 am/
>
> /Lene Rachel Andersen/
>
> Last week, upon the invitation of philosopher and author Lene Rachel 
> Andersen, I gave a short address as part of the Global Bildung 
> Festival 
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> Having studied two of her many books, /Metamodernity: Meaning and Hope 
> in a Complex World /and /The Nordic Secret: A European story of Beauty 
> and Freedom /(co-authored by Tomas Björkman), I was honored that she 
> asked me to participate.
>
> I titled my presentation “Bildung and the Blues.” The relation between 
> a term of German origin such as “Bildung”—a concept that relates how 
> individuals and groups of people learn and grow through education and 
> self-development to cultivate skills, habits, and values that 
> contribute to society—and the American form of music called the blues, 
> innovated by Black Americans, is likely not readily apparent. The 
> intention of my short speech was to highlight connections between the 
> Blues and Bildung beyond the distance posed by geographic and cultural 
> origin.
>
> What follows is the address, plus some content that I would have 
> included if I’d had more than the allotted eight minutes. Given that 
> I’ve coined an expression—the /blues idiom wisdom tradition/—I figure 
> it’s about time I began fleshing out that tradition as I perceive and 
> conceive it. This is a small step in that direction.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *The blues is a wisdom tradition* deriving from the Black American 
> people in North America. The blues has many dimensions: musical, 
> poetic, literary. The blues is also an attitude, way of life, and 
> worldview. My mentor Albert Murray coined the expression “blues idiom” 
> to capture the richness of the blues.
>
> I’ll explore these dimensions and connect the Blues Idiom directly to 
> Bildung in the latter part of my brief remarks.
>
> From a planetary perspective, the so-called blues scale is close to 
> the pentatonic scale, which is practically universal in human 
> cultures. The blues, then, connects to music culture globally.
>
> In the United States, the blues is the roots music of many of the 
> nation’s styles, from gospel and jazz to country & western and rock 
> and roll. As a form, the blues most often has a repeated 12-bar cycle, 
> a call-and-response melodic structure, a American Negro or Black 
> American vocal timbre, and a harmonic system that connects to 
> Christian church music tradition, and, as mentioned above, other music 
> across the world.
>
> /Jonathan Batiste/
>
> Blues and jazz musician Jonathan Batiste received the most nominations 
> for the 2022 Grammy Awards, set to air on April 3rd.
>
> He happens to be a colleague of mine via our connection to the 
> National Jazz Museum in Harlem. His song for Record of the Year, 
> “Freedom,” is a blues. It’s not happenstance that the title of that 
> song, “Freedom,” is fundamental to not only Black American life and 
> history, but to American democracy itself. For Black Americans, 
> there’s a direct connection between the lack of social, political and 
> economic freedom of our early sojourn here and the manifestation of 
> the blues form at the turn of the 20th century.
>
> But when you listen to Batiste’s “Freedom 
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> you don’t feel down and out, depressed, or downtrodden. You join his 
> celebration of life despite the pain in life. Albert Murray called 
> this nuance the distinction between the blues /as such/ and the blues 
> as /music./
>
> The blues is also poetry. The great American writer and democratic 
> theorist Ralph Ellison once said—“As a form, the blues is an 
> autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically.”
>
> The sentence preceding that basic definition is a classic poetic and 
> literary description, with customary Ellison eloquence:
>
> /The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a 
> brutal experience alive in one aching consciousness, to finger its 
> jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of 
> philosophy but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near comic lyricism. /
>
> The blues as music also plays a vital social function. In Murray’s 
> /Stomping the Blues/,//he describes this dimension of the culture of 
> Afro-Americans, in a ritual domain, as the /Saturday Night 
> Function/ and the /Sunday Morning Church Service/, two sides of the 
> blues idiom, secular and sacred.
>
> On Sunday morning, rituals of devotion and propitiation were enacted 
> by the souls of Black folk “making a joyful noise unto the Lord.” On 
> Saturday nights, the other side of the tradition, a community of blues 
> people engaged in purification rituals to banish the mess and cruelty 
> of life, and in fertility rituals . . . to continue the human species!
>
> You play the blues to get rid of the blues by facing your troubles 
> straight-up and straight ahead, admitting that life can be unfair and 
> random, but yet and still: you dance, groove, have a good time, and 
> get it on, baby, lettin’ the good times roll—to stomp the blues, even 
> if just temporarily. In the blues idiom tradition, you know those 
> shadowy blue devils will likely be back tomorrow to try to get you 
> down and throw you off course.
>
> The blues idiom, as an orientation to life and worldview somewhat 
> similar to Stoicism, understands that tragedy, pain, death, and even 
> injustice are givens, yet creates beauty in form and meaning to affirm 
> the sheer fact that we’re alive. In the collection /Conversations with 
> Albert Murray/, Murray defined the blues idiom as “an attitude of 
> affirmation in the face of difficulty, of improvisation in the face of 
> challenge. It means you acknowledge that life is a low-down dirty 
> shame yet confront that fact with perseverance, with humor, and above 
> all with elegance.”
>
> *From Schiller and Goethe to Ellison and Murray*
>
> On p. 144 of /The Nordic Secret, /Lene Rachel Andersen writes about 
> two iconic Germans who extended, elaborated, and refined the idea of 
> Bildung, Friedrich Schiller and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. “If we 
> talk about scaffolding personal development, Schiller and Goethe are 
> an example of two geniuses who became each other’s ladder and 
> scaffolding as they both climbed, each in his own way,” she wrote. 
> From Goethe derived the literary tradition of the /bildungsroman/; for 
> Schiller, the relationship between moral and aesthetic education and 
> freedom, personal to political, was key.
>
> With respect to the blues idiom, the same can be said for Ralph 
> Ellison and Albert Murray—they were two geniuses who became “each 
> other’s ladder and scaffolding as they climbed, each in his own way.” 
> Over the course of their relationship and in their writings and 
> interviews, they honed and developed concepts and perspectives that 
> synthesized their lived experience as Black American men with the 
> highest of American values and meanings within a Western humanist 
> tradition. I’ve come to call this dynamic relationship the 
> /Ellison-Murray Continuum. /The two attended the historically black 
> college Tuskegee Institute together in Alabama in the 1930s. 
> Ironically, they became two of the most important literary minds and 
> cultural theorists that America produced in the 20th century. What’s 
> ironic is not the fact that they accomplished this while being 
> racialized as “black,” rather, it’s that they both attended the 
> Tuskegee, a college in the deep South founded by Booker T. Washington, 
> who advocated for the development of trade and industrial skills 
> primarily, not artistic and intellectual mastery.
>
> The great scholar and co-founder of the NAACP, W.E.B. Du Bois, was a 
> product of another institute of higher learning for Negro Americans 
> built in the aftermath of the Civil War, Fisk University. He attended 
> and graduated from Harvard and did graduate work at the University of 
> Berlin thereafter in the late 19th century. Du Bois, in comparison to 
> Booker T., was more in favor of the cognitive development provided by 
> a liberal arts education.
>
> Historically, Black colleges were a manifestation of the intense, 
> life-giving hunger for education by formerly enslaved persons, so they 
> could advance from being illiterate peasants to educated contributors 
> to their communal group and American society. Though many, many 
> obstacles were put in our way, slowly but surely we began to rise, 
> with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, and, among many other 
> examples, the Negro debate students at Wiley College, who defeated the 
> national debate champions from USC in 1935, a story depicted in 2007 
> starring Denzel Washington, /The Great Debaters./
>
> /Charles Hamilton Houston/
>
> At the law school of one of the most prestigious historically black 
> colleges and universities (HBCUs), Howard University, the legendary 
> Charles Hamilton Houston devised the legal strategy that ultimately 
> ended legalized racial segregation. Thurgood Marshall, who argued and 
> won the Brown v. Board decision at the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954, and 
> who became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in 1967, was a 
> student of Charles Hamilton Houston’s. Significantly, also 
> contributing to the legal brief in the case for Linda Brown, a 
> ten-year old girl from Topeka, Kansas, was law professor Charles Black 
> Jr., who at the age of 16 in Austin, Texas in 1931 had a mind-altering 
> experience by witnessing the power and blues genius of the 
> paterfamilias of the jazz idiom, Louis Armstrong, in person. I 
> recounted this incident in “Jazz, Social Justice, and a White Boy from 
> Texas 
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> The example of Charles Black demonstrates a direct link between 
> aesthetic insight, cultural education, moral development, and social 
> advance.
>
> These accounts of educational and artistic excellence contributing to 
> social change and advancement, moving the U.S. closer to the promises 
> of the social contract contained in its founding documents and 
> principles, laid the ground for Ketanji Brown Jackson, who will likely 
> to become the first Black American woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
>
> /Ketanji Brown Jackson/
>
> The Global Bildung Manifesto defines Bildung as: /the combination of 
> the education and knowledge necessary to thrive in your society, and 
> the moral and emotional maturity to both be a team player and have 
> personal autonomy and also knowing your roots and being able to 
> imagine the future/. This definition, considered in light of my 
> comments above, definitely aligns with the blues idiom, for Black 
> Americans imagined a better future and innovated a culture both rooted 
> and cosmopolitan.
>
> And, as CEO of the Jazz Leadership Project, I can assure you that jazz 
> music epitomizes in principle and practice the emotional and moral 
> maturity to exercise both personal agency and autonomy while being a 
> member of a team, an ensemble. By engaging one another with soulful 
> skill and mature collaborative capacities, respecting the individual 
> voices and sounds of each musician while subordinating ego for the 
> sake of the group and the music, jazz musicians have resolved the 
> dualistic divide between the personal and the social, through culture.
>
> Thank you.
>
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