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"Say Goodbye To The World As You Know It"
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Peter Joseph Burtt
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One of the ultimate lessons for Peter Joseph Burtt that became clear to him during his travels to Africa is that he should be himself within the context of the music, to resist the urge to simply reproduce the music that he was learning as the Africans played it; to build bridges between the western and the African cultures by playing in a way that an American could understand.
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As a student in the prestigious graduate writing program at San Francisco State, Peter focused on the connections between spoken word, rhythm, and music, doubling his studies with Ghanaian master drummer, Kwaku Daddy at City College. He learned about arrangement of rhythms in different times. Kwaku taught him how everything works together, things he had always suspected, like the concept that everything has a song; the ocean, the birds, the wind in the trees. It's all music and you can hear it if you know how to listen.
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