“All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it,” James Baldwin once wrote.
What does it mean to “really hear it” and why is it experienced so differently from listener to listener? When is a love song happy for some and bittersweet for others? When is a hip-hop song politically motivational for some and a sign of degradation for others? When is a song one’s love and another’s protest? And when do both exist in context?
These are the types of questions raised by the latest Dr. Guy’s MusiQology performance, “Songs of Protest & Love,” which takes to the stage at South (600 North Broad St) this upcoming Friday and Saturday March 25 and 26. After the sold-out debut of Everybody’s Protest Music this past fall at the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Guy Ramsey returns to the Philadelphia stage, digging deeper into the contradictory themes of a moment where love and hate and joy and sadness and fear and hope coexist and coalesce in his performances.
Each evening will feature three sets of live music, with the band set to take the stage at 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00 PM each evening. Doors open at South’s Jazz Parlor at 6PM; reservations are suggested and can be made here.
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