Abstract
Blues forms of the Black Self: Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s Cultural Memory is an ekphrastic paper describing a violin concerto in three parts, entitled Blues Form(s) composed by renown musician, composer, arranger, conductor and mentor to the author, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. The concerto is available to hear and view online at https://youtu.be/iFtwtIom7Zk, https://youtu.be/najvzYykCwc & https://youtu.be/0be4SlLiyWQ . Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson lived as a musical wizard, working in all capacities within the classical, jazz, soul, dance and popular music. The paper offers, through a short biography of Perkinson, personal recollections of the composer, examples of cultural memory (as defined by Dr. Sam Floyd Jr.) in his work at large, to connect the concerto to symbols of the soul, the Ring of Congo Square, the myth of Brer Rabbit and the funeral tradition common in the southern United States, known as The Second Line.
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Cultural History, Cultural Memory, Oral History, Cultural Renaissance, Ekphrasis
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