Sahakoa he puhoi rawa te uru mai o nga purongo: he tuhi tere i runga i te Ipurangi, he panui horekau i runga i te pakiwaitara waiata, engari karekau he korero, karekau he mohio ki te oranga kaha me nga taonga tuku iho i mahue mai. Ko te papanga hapori i awhinahia e Matt Jones ki te whakahou ano i te ahua kaore i raru ki te kite i tana mate.
Ko Jones kua kuraina, kua mohio ki te puoro puoro i te wa i kaha ai ia ki te whawhai mo nga tika tangata ma te whakauru atu ki te Nashville Student Movement i te tau 1960. I uru atu ano ia ki roto i te pakanga i Danville, Virginia, nana i whakarite te Danville Freedom Voices i roto. 1963. I muri tata mai, ka hūnuku atu a Jones ki Atlanta, Georgia me tana tuakana a Marshall, ka hono raua tokorua ki te Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) me a raua roopu waiata, ko te Freedom Singers. I hangaia tenei roopu rongonui i nga huihuinga i waenga i a Cordell Reagon, Hekeretari Tumuaki o SNCC Jim Foreman, me Pete Seeger. I te tau 1964, ka noho ko Jones, he hekeretari mara a SNCC, hei kaiwhakahaere mo te roopu.
I taua tau, i huri haere nga Kaiwaiata Freedom i te motu hei wahanga o te kaupapa whakahaere ki te hanga i nga Hoa o SNCC. Mo nga Kaiwaiata Freedom, i kii a Jones, "Ko matou nga kaiwhakarite i te tuatahi, ko nga kaiwaiata tuarua." I enei wa ngangau, ko te whawhai mo te tauritenga i te Jim Crow South he tino whakamataku. He maha nga wa i tukitukia ai e Jones te Klan me te 29 mau hopukina. Ko ana wheako i whakawhanake ia hei "kaiwaiata herekore" i roto i te tino visceral tikanga.
“Kare au e whakaaro ki a au ano he kaimahi tikanga,” ta Jones. “He kaiwaiata noa ahau; he toa herekore. He toa noa ahau i nga wa katoa; Ka heke ano ahau ki raro. He rereke nga waiata o te herekore i era atu waiata mautohe na te mea he mantra. Ko te whakamahi i te tukurua ka taea te mohio ki te karere. Mena ka waiata tatou i tetahi korero kaha, penei 'Ko tenei rama iti naku, ka waiho e ahau kia whiti,' katahi ka taea e tatou te whakauru ki roto."
I mau tonu a Jones i tana mahi hei kaitoi-kaitoi ahakoa i muri i te wehenga o SNCC. I takaro ia huri noa i te ao, tae atu ki te taha o nga kaiwhaiwhai herekore i Ireland ki te Raki. I te wa e whawhai ana ki te Pakanga o Vietnam, i hopukina e ia tetahi waiata rongonui, "Kao Reinga, Kare matou e Haere," i mahi tahi me te kaiwaiata a Elaine Laron.
Ko nga wheako o Jones ko nga whakaaturanga i te taha o nga whakamarama pera i a Seeger me te Reverend FD Kirkpatrick. I mahi tahi ia me Barbara Dane, i mahi i te konohete rongonui rongonui o Vietnam Songbook, i waiata i te Highlander Folk School, a, he rite tonu tana koha ki Broadside i te wa poto o taua maheni, i mahi tahi me tana kaiwhakarewa, kaiwaiata mautohe a Sis Cunningham. I whai waahi ano ia ki te Phil Ochs Song Nights ia tau mai i te timatanga, a kua rangona ana waiata i roto i nga kiriata penei i te The Ghosts of Mississippi. I Harlem, i whakaritea e ia he mihi a tau ki a Dr. King.
I roto i nga tekau tau, i haere tonu ia ki te mahi mo nga huihuinga maha puta noa i New York me tua atu, tae atu ki etahi konohete o te ra o Mei, te Huihuinga o te Hanns Eisler Centenary 1998, me te mihi ki a Woody Guthrie. I timata i te tau 1986, i arahi a Jones i tetahi porowhita waiata ia wiki i te Advent Lutheran Church i 93rd Street me Broadway. Ko tenei raupapa, i tapaina ko te Open House Coffee House, he waahi whakatenatena i nga waiata me te kaha o te korero.
Ko te whakaute o Jones mo nga waiata hou o te pakanga i rite ki tana hiahia ki te pupuri i nga waiata tawhito, tae atu ki nga waiata wairua me nga poi. I roto i nga tekau tau i muri mai, ka hoki ano ia ki tana kitā acoustic tino nui, ko te ahua karekau ia e mokowhiti i te nuinga o te waa, he waiata ngohe ki tona reo kua matotoru.
Kaore a Jones i mutu i tetahi keeke me te kore "The Freedom Chant," he whakapumautanga na tetahi korero rongonui na Fannie Lou Hamer me ana ake tau mahi tika. He nui te korero mo tenei kaiwaiata pukumahi a te iwi: Kei te ngenge ahau i te mate me te ngenge.
E kore ahau e whakaae ki tetahi i nga wa katoa
Ki te takahi i taku hinengaro, i taku tinana ranei
Ahakoa te ahua, te ahua, te ahua ranei.
Ki te pera me mahi tonu ratou ki AU
Te herekoretanga! Te herekoretanga! Te herekoretanga!
He pono "i heke iho" a Matt Jones hei toa mo te herekore. E mohio ana ahau kei te pirangi ia kia maharatia ano ia. Kaua rawa e wareware.
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Ko John Pietaro he kaiwaiata, he kaituhi, he kaiwhakarite mahi no New York City. I puta tuatahi tenei waahanga i theculturalworker.blogspot.com.