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Little Green del disco
Blue (1971), de Joni Mitchell, tras conocer quién es esa tal Green: la niña a la que Mitchell, con 21 años, viéndose sola y sin ninguna posibilidad de mantenerla, se vio obligada a dar en adopción.
Joni Mitchell, cuyo verdadero nombre es Roberta Joan Anderson, nació en 1943 en Fort Macleod, Canadá, y desde pequeña mostró una inclinación natural hacia las artes. Sin embargo, nunca fue una buena estudiante y a punto estuvo de convertirse en una delincuente juvenil tras abandonar la escuela por un tiempo con solo 12 años. Tampoco le convenció, años después, el futuro que le ofrecería el Alberta College of Arts y solo encontró su lugar en el mundo cuando comenzó a tocar
How did a national leader whose animating political spirit was protecting human rights come to adopt a passive acceptance of Canada's worst face of colonialism?
When the Canadian broadcast regulator brought in rules for Canadian content in music on the radio, no one was sure what it would mean for the music industry.
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I first met Samara Joy in November 2019, two days before she won the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition at NJPAC. She walked into the WBGO studio for her interview as a finalist with a very mild, unassuming presence that certainly wouldn’t set off any alarm bells.
We started talking and she mentioned how she had only come to discover Sarah Vaughan’s Lover Man the previous year, as a student at SUNY Purchase. She was instantly enthralled, and dove in headfirst into the legend s body of work.
The Pulse featuring Samara Joy and the 2021 SVVC Finalists
Samara (who previously used her family name, McLendon) grew up in a family rooted in gospel and R&B. (Her grandparents led the Philadelphia-based gospel group The Savettes). When she began to study jazz seriously, her professor Jon Faddis was the impetus for her entering the competition, recognizing the rare talent she exhibited. “I’m just a girl from the Bronx,” Samara said during our initia
In the past year, COVID-19 abruptly disrupted schooling, and forced the question of how much kindergarten to Grade 12 education should or will rely on online teaching in the near and distant future. Education has taken a decided technological turn in its massive adaptation to online learning. This is precipitating a critical debate in education right now, with a most uncertain future and much depending on its outcome.
One key concern when considering both online learning and the tech platforms teachers may rely on in classrooms is a long-standing issue of how education should accommodate student individuality. For at least 150 years, education in the western world has been conflicted over this issue.