{"id":21170,"date":"2014-02-18T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21170"},"modified":"2014-02-18T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:54:22","slug":"when-the-african-american-robed-choir-is-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/when-the-african-american-robed-choir-is-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"When the African American Robed Choir Is Not Enough&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know nothing about the phenomenon of the animated movie <em>Frozen<\/em>, but a groundswell of attention has reached me in recent weeks. I keep hearing about some song called &#8220;Let It Go,&#8221; which stuck on my radar because I wrote a song by that title years ago and chuckle at the notion of learning that one of my songs was selected as the big musical number in a Disney movie. Alas, it&#8217;s not my &#8220;Let It Go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I had not heard a lick of this song or seen even a trailer for <em>Frozen<\/em> until this morning, when an &#8220;Africanized Tribal Cover&#8221; of the song appeared on a friend&#8217;s Facebook feed. The prospect of an &#8220;Africanized Tribal Cover,&#8221; as the parenthetical title on YouTube promised, was too ripe to bypass during Exploitive Black Rock History Month. See what you think:<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DAJYk1jOhzk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>For those of you who&#8217;ve seen the movie, am I right to assume that the original movie version is not &#8220;Africanized&#8221; or even &#8220;tribalized&#8221;? Or was there a reason to &#8220;Africanize&#8221; the song? Is the Ice Princess, or whoever is the movie character singing the song, at least surrounded by an animated choir of robed Inuits?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know nothing about the phenomenon of the animated movie Frozen, but a groundswell of attention has reached me in recent weeks. I keep hearing about some song called &#8220;Let It Go,&#8221; which stuck on my radar because I wrote a song by that title years ago and chuckle at the notion of learning that <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/when-the-african-american-robed-choir-is-not-enough\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}