Tomorrow!

I have to tell my advisor that I am switching dissertation topics! I am scared, why! What I want to do is just as legitimate and important, so why am I still scared!

Fcuk it though! I'm going to do it...the architecture and geography of black women guitarists identities, focusing on issues of race, gender, class, representation, space and place!

And maybe I should also interview "younger" guitarists too! Why wait for them to turn 70 plus before asking how they construct and negotiate their identities as contemporary black women and as creative musicians/artists. It will be awesome to interview them 20 years later, develop a body of work about them instead of lamenting after their deaths about why no one focused on them earlier!

tomorrow...tomorrow...I wonder if I will get in trouble for switch

Oh boy

So I thought I knew what I wanted my dissertation to be about, but now it seems like my heart is calling me to do oral history work with black women guitarists. This is what really excites me the most, the idea of interviewing them, contributing to some sort of archive on their behalf. They need to be remembered and honored and recognized so they can continue to inspire generations of black girls to pick up guitars and play and know that that instrument is at home in their hands and not just in a white man's hands, or a white woman's hands or a black man's hands. It is our instrument too.

I've got to decide who though...likely, older women in their 70s before it's too late to catch up to them in their 80s. And then I have got to find them and then Dear God, my learning curve is steep. Summer I will drown myself in research and catch up to a professor who can help school me and give me bibliography.

I am praying about this. I need some doors and windows to open up on my behalf and show me the path I should go down

History!!

The OBAMAS are locked and loaded in place!

Increase!

42!

Thank you, Odetta!

Sister Odetta died last night...

40!!!!

Obama day!

Doria Roberts

Sigh...I really needed her when I was going through my white girls with guitar (and piano) phase, discovering feminism and what not back in the high school days. I am late to her and mad about it, but anyways, this song really is PERFECT! She is awesome. I could say she oughtta be crazy famous by now, but, well...it gets old saying that about a lot of clever people.