LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 17:12 December 2017
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
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         Renuga Devi, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Theme of Music in Maya Angelou’s
Singin’ and Swingin’and Gettin Merry Like Christmas

Dr. S. S. JansiRani, M.A., M.A., M.Phil., PGDCA, Ph.D.
Mrs. P. Jayageetha, M.A., M.Phil.

Music and Maya Angelou

In her autobiography Singin’ and Swingin’ and Gettin’ Merry like Christmas, Maya Angelou writes about the awe she has felt while on an European tour. Maya Angelou is a major contemporary author and contributor to the black autobiographical tradition whose literary reputation is based on her five volume autobiographical series and her poetry. Music appears throughout Angelou’s third autobiography, starting with the title, which evokes a blues song and Angelou’s career in music and performance.

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During a century dominated by slavery, the black women struggled to write and to be heard. But in recent years, African - American women are able to articulate their existence in autobiography, fiction, poetry and polemics. It is quite interesting that these women have written, spoken, sung and survived. But every day they are recovering voices from the past, to remind us that:

If the first women god ever made as strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again (Evans, p. 342)

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Dr. S. S. JansiRani. M.A., M.A., M.Phil., PGDCA, Ph.D.
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