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Ascension – added further propulsion to his career, emboldening him to delve deeper in his sonic explorations and liberate Black improvised music (Shepp wasn’t comfortable with the word “jazz”) from musical clichés as well as stock melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and structural conventions. While some of his contemporaries – like Coltrane, Ayler, and Pharoah Sanders – ruminated on cosmic and spiritual themes, Shepp was more overtly political. His music reflected the zeitgeist of an increasingly radicalized Civil Rights movement that had given rise to the ideologies of Black Power a...

Keeping the Eyes: New Evidence By UTgrad'08 on Mar 4, 2021, 2:49pm CST 42 Since June, I have done my own investigation into the history of the Eyes of Texas. Recently, I have come across new pieces of evidence regarding William Prather, Robert E. Lee, and the origin of the phrase, "the eyes of Texas." All of three of the following excerpts were found using the database Newspapers.com. 1. From an article by Eudora Garrett in the Austin-American Statesman, June 6, 1926: "...Mr. Prather...is also famous for the origination of the song 'The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You;' Mr. Prather ha...

Her mother claims her father is a bigamist and his new wife an opportunist. here's akiko fujita with more. >> a visibly pregnant reese witherspoon surround by her family walked her father into a tennessee courtroom. inside, the judge deciding this issue. is her 70-year-old father competent enough to handle his own financial affairs? >> conservatorship allows a family member to step in and seize control if you will, over the person and over that person's finances. >> reporter: the family believes john witherspoon is being taken advantage of by his new wife and unable to protect himself. it star...