Commissioned by EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble. 
https://cassandramiller.wordpress.com/2013/10/22/guide/

Guide

Guide - EXAUDI Vocal Ensemble (2013)

Jamaican Plight is a six-song cycle for high voice and piano
with text by the Jamaican poet Louise Bennett-Coverley, in the Jamaican patois. 
The narrative of the cycle depicts a peddler having to tutor a recently unemployed relative on how to make a living being a peddler; a task the relative once thumbed their nose at. Low income and high prices, along with the plummeting Jamaican economy have made the struggle even greater. This brings about a resolve to seek greener pastures—The United States. A few years after migration a heavy sense of nostalgia slinks in. The yearning to return to their homeland is great but sadly the entire extended family has also migrated to the United States. There is no one to return home to. Eventually a visit is paid to Jamaica and they marvel at all the changes that have taken place in such a short time. Visiting their hometown, they reunite with neighbors and friends but the reunion takes an interesting turn when their neighbors and friends express great disappointment in their returning without a foreign accent.

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An experimental vocalist and movement artist whose work encompasses improvisation, contemporary composition, sound art, music theatre, physical theatre and performance art.

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