Music Media Ministry
The New Negro Spiritual Project
THE NEW NEGRO SPIRITUAL PROJECT
Traditional Music for a New Frame of American History
CONCERT DEBUT VIDEO MONTAGE
We are seeking financial support to fund the recording of
THE NEW NEGRO SPIRITUAL PROJECT
and submit the following for your review in that regard.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
THE CONCEPT
THE NEW NEGRO SPIRITUAL PROJECT is the collaborative creation of Dr. Jay Fluellen and Minister Warren Cooper.It is a collection of original songs and arrangements that celebrates the root and the fruit of the Traditional Negro Spiritual, transposing it from the contextual focus of “enslaved Africans in America” into a focus of contemporarily relevant context. This transposition is one that represents an evolution of the original Spirit and Message of the Traditional Negro Spiritual into a Message that speaks into the contemporary context of A Universal Spiritual Relevance for All Humanity. This new music fuses the Traditional Negro Spiritual music medium with elements of the Jazz, Gospel and Classical idioms, and emerges as a uniquely blended expression of Hope, Promise, Divine Connection and Resurrection.
We are raising funds for the recording, mixing, mastering and pressing of an audio compact disc that will capture and present the performance of this music. Snippets of these performances are represented in the attached video montage from the concert debut. The CD will be the foundation and focal point of a published body of music and a fully developed curriculum that will serve the functions of:
1) Educating students of all ages about the history of the Negro Spiritual and the presence of its DNA within all of the music that exists today;
2) Creating a conversational forum for The Issue of Race in America through the translation of the Negro Spiritual message and substance into a wider frame of contemporary context that includes a Social, Political, Historic, Economic and Faith Based focus;
3) Creating an approach to elementary and secondary education that uses music as the foundational frame of reference in the study of mathematics, sociology,language arts, creative arts, science, health, and history;
4) Creating a new body of music for the sacred and secular performance idiom that informs and inspires audiences into a greater creative consciousness;
5) Extending the presence and significance of the Negro Spiritual into the relevant history (past and present) of the United States of America and the world.