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From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:18:11 -0600
KT,
On page 5, Lewis is walking by the elementary school on the reservation and sees the banner "Welcome to the 1975-76 School Year!" Lewis was starting the 7th grade.
I was in the tenth grade that. We were listening to music all the time. It was part of us, starting when we were little kids cutting the Archie records off the back of cereal boxes. My parents were into country music. I think they didn't know what to make of the Beatles! They didn't buy Beatles records, but my older cousins did. We'd walk across the arroyo (on the reservation) to go to their house and dance to their records.
And man, oh man... when I was older and got to go to a concert in Albuquerque at the Pit?! Wow! My body vibrates just remembering the excitement of it, before, during, and after!
Music matters to Lewis. It is a significant part of his relationship with his Uncle Albert, and his relationship with George and his dad, too.
I love what Eric did with music as a framing device for the novel and for Lewis's life, too.
Music shapes us. In good times and in bad, lyrics come to us. Oftentimes, it is music that gets us through something. It holds us in its arms. The many ways that Eric used it, it holds the novel--and us--in its arms. Reflecting on How I Became A Ghost where we saw humor as significant in helping us move through that novel, I think music is what moves us through If I Ever Get Out of Here.
Debbie
__________________________________________________________ Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:18:11 -0600
KT,
On page 5, Lewis is walking by the elementary school on the reservation and sees the banner "Welcome to the 1975-76 School Year!" Lewis was starting the 7th grade.
I was in the tenth grade that. We were listening to music all the time. It was part of us, starting when we were little kids cutting the Archie records off the back of cereal boxes. My parents were into country music. I think they didn't know what to make of the Beatles! They didn't buy Beatles records, but my older cousins did. We'd walk across the arroyo (on the reservation) to go to their house and dance to their records.
And man, oh man... when I was older and got to go to a concert in Albuquerque at the Pit?! Wow! My body vibrates just remembering the excitement of it, before, during, and after!
Music matters to Lewis. It is a significant part of his relationship with his Uncle Albert, and his relationship with George and his dad, too.
I love what Eric did with music as a framing device for the novel and for Lewis's life, too.
Music shapes us. In good times and in bad, lyrics come to us. Oftentimes, it is music that gets us through something. It holds us in its arms. The many ways that Eric used it, it holds the novel--and us--in its arms. Reflecting on How I Became A Ghost where we saw humor as significant in helping us move through that novel, I think music is what moves us through If I Ever Get Out of Here.
Debbie
__________________________________________________________ Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
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