There are many ways to approach the Delta, what is innovative about this iteration of NBPC’s New Media Institute, is the choice of the digital approach. The feeling that permeates most of our encounters so far has been an expectation that we will treat the textures of history living in the fabric of this culture with a loving desire to capture the truth. In that respect no better group of people could have been chosen to do this work! The mix of ideas and approaches that have been outlined so far, present a very encouraging picture.
Someone said to me yesterday, as we mingled with catfish strips and delicious spinach at the Smith Robertson Cultural Center, “what is amazing about the Delta, is that such riveting music, art, literature and culture, can emerge from such a materially deprived environment.” Well, there is the testament that the beauty of art does not lie in the shell but in the soul within that shell. Welcome to Mississippi!
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