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"Peace Begins with You and Me-We're Bully Free" Concerts
an article by Cheryl Melody
My teaching concert for young children has a long title: "Peace Begins with You and Me-We're Bully Free-A Hero We Can All Be!" (www.cherylmelody.com).
Original music, rap, storytelling, sound healing instruments,
children's peace promises, quotations and a Peace Pledge are my tools,
and this concert is my passion and life's work.
Peace Begins with You and Me
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I
inspire children and adults to walk on the "Peace Begins with You and
Me" path, to become conscious of the positive power of their words,
actions, thoughts, and to respect the universality of feelings. I
encourage listening with an open heart, mind and spirit, and to suspend
judgment of one another.
I search for ageless ways to advocate values of love, respect,
and nonviolent conflict-resolution. I perform anywhere and everywhere in
order to raise consciousness...while I myself continue with this inner
process too.
On March 19th, I will be performing for K-2 and parents at The
House of Peace and Education in Gardner, MA. One of my theme songs says
it all: "We're all one people, all one nation, all one planet, and
together we can live."
From performing a peace and healing concert in Oklahoma after
the bombing to now...my Purpose is to inspire all ages to create a
higher consciousness vibration of peace for all of our tender human
family.
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DISCUSSION
Question(s) related to this article:
What place does music have in the peace movement?
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Latest reader comment:
Rama -
Thanks for that. Yes, that event was a key moment that illustrated a
possible future for Jamaica, but was it really the music that did it? Is
it possible that it could have happened with a different musician, or a
famous sports person instead, or any other popular figure in front of
that many onlookers? Music was the medium in this case in which an event
and media-moment was staged to positive effect, but the music itself on
that occasion did not do much. It is possible to say that from that
moment reggae took on a newer and more profound meaning to a number of
Jamaicans as they took it to represent their collective identity and
this followed them whether or not they stayed in Jamaica or immigrated
to other areas, New York for example, where dancehall reggae culture
provided the platform for the emergence of hip hop, which is a closer
example of music working somewhat towards reducing conflict, at least
until the original message became appropriated for other, opposite
means. So I'm afraid that saying music creates peace or even fosters it
is just not accurate in the case of Bob Marley.
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