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8 • The Red and Black • Friday, November 16, 1990
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The Athens Book Warehouse will be hosting a group of local au
thors Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. Warren leamon and Tony
Grooms are among the writers scheduled to appear. The event
will include performance readings and a writer's forum.
Rockfish Blues Feast
for rock and roll fans
By MAURA CORRIGAN
Contributing Writer
A jamming group of musicians
will be swinging to the blues at
The Rockfish Palace this
weekend. They will be cele
brating the fifth annual Blues
Feast, as well as paying tribute to
one of the foundations of rock and
roll — the blues.
The Blues Feast first began as
a mere party when Jim Kautz,
who plays guitar for Plat Eye
Blue and John Straw and bass for
The Healers, decided to throw a
celebration in honor of blues
players. Kautz said they had a
nuge chicken cookout in the back
yard of Don Simons, the har
monica player for The Healers.
He said it was so huge and suc
cessful that the hosts decided to
make it an annual event.
The Blues Feast has been held
at The Rockfish ever since. It is
called a feast because the tradi
tion has been to serve food to the
blues players.
“The purpose of the feast is to
try to further the blues in Athens
and the country,” Kautz said.
“We want to put Athens on the
map for the blues, to try to do a
little educating and to have a
party at the same time.”
Each year, the feast is ded
icated to someone who influenced
blues music’ Kautz said this
year’s show is dedicated to blues
great Little Walter, whose real
name was Marion Walter Jacobs.
He was bom in 1930 and died in
1968.
“Walter was one of the first to
amplify the harmonica and his
style of playing still influences
people today,” Kautz said. “He
played with Muddy Waters in the
60s and was very big in Chicago.”
Kautz, Straw and Simons are
now all members of the Athens
Blues Conservatory. The group is
responsible for hiring acts for the
Blues Feast and they also hold
other blues reviews at clubs
throughout the year.
This year’s lineup will feature
Rick Turner, the Urban Shake
Dancers, Caroline Aiken & Cold
Shot, The Healers and a jam ses
sion Friday night and Saturday
night Marion Montgomery, the
Tommy Carlisle Band and Plat
Eye Blue will perform.
“Every year the feast has
gotten bigger and bigger,” Kautz
said. “Every band is worth
seeing, and in the past The
Rockfish has even had to turn
people away.”
“We’re trying to keep the blues
revival happening, because jazz
and the blues are really the only
true American art forms," Kautz
said.
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Toni Morrison: An intriguing presence
By AMY WILLIAMS
Contributing Writer
Twelve minutes past four o’clock
on Wednesday, November 13 the
front door of the Georgia Hall
opened and an outburst of ap
plause filled the air. With a folder
in her hand and a tired grin on her
face, Toni Morrison, the Pulitzer
Prize-winning author stepped to
the microphone to deliver her ea
gerly awaited lecture.
Some may wonder why this lec
ture would warrant such enthu
siasm. For those who do wonder,
they should go to the University li
brary and read her powerful novel
“Beloved,” about the agonizing
memories of a runaway slave who
killed her own children to prevent
their return to slavery, or “Song of
Solomon,” which won the National
Book Critics award in 1977.
“Powerful is probably overused,”
JoAnne Juett, comparative litera
ture teacher in the English depart
ment, said. “Every situation is
alive. She compels you to partici
pate. There is no opportunity to
stand back as an objective
bystander.”
After reading or hearing Mor
rison one may understand that
same spine-shivering excitement
the audience felt as Morrison deliv
ered her lecture.
A senior editor at Random
House for 20 years, Morrison is a
member of the American Academy
and Institute of Arts and Letters
and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
Morrison spoke on the topic
“Studies in American Africanism:
Gertrude Stein and the Difference
She Makes.”
Morrison said her paper grew
out of a course she began to teach
one and a half years ago at
Princeton.
“In her lecture and novels all of
Morrison’s images are extremely
significant,” said Juett. “Her
writing is not art for art’s sake.”
INTERVIEW
Morrison confirmed that belief
in her lecture. “There is a general
assumption that art can not be se-
perated from the world it inhabits,”
she said.
Morrison lectured on how black
pretense, which shaped the polit
ical body and culture and history of
the United States, has no signifi
cant place in the origin or devel
opment of its literature.
Near the end, a smile emerged
from the same mouth that this
thought-provoking and intellec
tually stimulating speech had been
spoken.
“My pursuit has vested interest!
I am probing texts for any shred of
meaning and not to see a thun
derous, disturbing presence,” said
Morrison.
‘Toni Morrison is a very self as
sured and daring lady. She is revo
lutionary and wants to see a
change,” said Sean DeKoekkoek,
sophomore English mtyor.
In addition to the lecture, Mor
rison spent two days on campus
meeting with interested students
and faculty. On Thursday af
ternoon, right before her departure
to Atlanta, Morrison held an in
formal and intimate interview with
members of various press.
Q: With writing such a compli
cated book like “Beloved," where
did you begin?
A: On page one! I don’t always
start with the exact words but
these remained.
Q: You are a successful black
woman in a white society and
through your novels struggle to
come to grips with the impact of
black history and the community.
Are you attempting to give a model
for black women or are you re
claiming that role?
A: I’m trying to describe it. It is a
mistake to assume they don’t know
where the assault is coming from.
Toni Morrison
It isn’t about inventing a past or
community. It is about describing
it. It’s about remaining human and
humanistic in spite of difference.
Q: What is your definition of a
writer?
A: One who can. I would be re
luctant to define it in terms outside
of my own. I write because it is
what I do. I don’t want to do any
thing else. I like language and ma
nipulating it and inventing
characters. It removes cataracts
from peoples eyes and enables
people to recognize things that
they have not recognized before.
Q: How do you feel about being
labeled a black woman writer?
A: It’s not a category. It’s a de
scription. It’s not objecting. I insist
on it. I don’t resist being called a
black woman writer, I demand it. I
exercise that sovereignty over the
vocabulary.
Equal Justice Foundation helps out volunteers
By NOEL MURRAY
Entertainment Writer
While the collective mind of the
student body is currently fixated
on getting home for the holidays
and gobbling down turkey, Hector
Vargas and Rebecca Mick are
looking ahead to the Monday after
Thanksgiving.
On Monday, November 26th at
the Georgia Theatre, the Equal
Justice Foundation (in which
Vargas and Mick are active) is
sponsoring a benefit for their orga
nization. The Michael Guthrie
Band will headline, following
opening acts Insane Jane and Mag-
ister Ludi.
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around to various bands and
they’re usually pretty receptive.
Rebecca took charge of that this
year.”
The Equal Justice Foundation is
a student organization of the UGA
law school that provides money for
students who are interested in
public interest, pro bono (volun
teer) law.
Vargas explained, “We raise
money for students who do
summer internships with volun
teer organizations like Amnesty
International, the ACLU and the
Attorney General’s office. We sent
somebody to the National Wildlife
Foundation last summer. It’s diffi
cult for students to move to Wash
ington and do that kind of work
without any compensation.”
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fellowships a year, each about two
thousand dollars. The money
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with volunteer
organizations’
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EJF board member
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EJF sponsor augment the funds re
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