{"id":693,"date":"2012-01-16T04:59:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T09:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2012-01-16T04:59:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T09:59:16","slug":"in-honor-of-mlk-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/16\/in-honor-of-mlk-day\/","title":{"rendered":"In Honor of MLK Day\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/lorraine.jpg\" height=\"373\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"280\" align=\"right\" \/>In honor of the memory, legacy and goals of the <strong>Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King<\/strong>, I&#8217;d like to take this MLK Day opportunity to shine a light on a pair of releases that I reviewed a few years ago. (Almost) sharing a title, one of these is a CD collection and the other is a DVD documentary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/blast_from_the_past\/various_let_freedom_sing.shtml\"><em>Let Freedom Sing: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement<\/em><\/a> is a nicely-packaged 3CD set. A related (but separately-purchased) DVD is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=43\"><em>Let Freedom Sing: How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement<\/em><\/a>. Both are highly recommended. Not just on MLK Day, and not just for fans of a particular style of music or those interested in contemporary American history.<\/p>\n<p>The links above will take you to detailed reviews of each.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\" class=\"body\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" valign=\"middle\" height=\"18\" hspace=\"1\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"18\" \/> Twitter<\/a><br \/>\nand get notified when new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of the memory, legacy and goals of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, I&#8217;d like to take this MLK Day opportunity to shine a light on a pair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}