Bill Text: IL HR0261 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Congratulates the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians on its 50th anniversary.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Passed) 2015-03-11 - Resolution Adopted [HR0261 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR0261-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, State Representative Monique D. Davis and the | ||||||
| 3 | members of the Illinois House of Representatives wish to | ||||||
| 4 | congratulate the Association for the Advancement of Creative | ||||||
| 5 | Musicians (AACM) on the occasion of its 50th anniversary; and
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| 6 | WHEREAS, 50 years ago, South Side jazz musicians found | ||||||
| 7 | themselves in a musical landscape that was shifting towards | ||||||
| 8 | rock'n'roll; clubs were closing and radio stations were going | ||||||
| 9 | pop; Chicago musicians who had been employed 7-days-a-week | ||||||
| 10 | found themselves with no jobs available at all; and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Instead of just accepting the changing musical | ||||||
| 12 | tastes, Chicago jazz musicians banded together and established | ||||||
| 13 | the AACM; they invented original musical languages, created | ||||||
| 14 | intriguing new instruments, and crafted novel ways of penning | ||||||
| 15 | scores and otherwise defied long-standing presumptions of how | ||||||
| 16 | music was supposed to be made; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, Their work was steeped in the rituals of ancient | ||||||
| 18 | Africa and certain traditions of early New Orleans music, and | ||||||
| 19 | they managed to convey a vast sweep of black cultural history; | ||||||
| 20 | the past 5 decades have produced recordings of a vast | ||||||
| 21 | expressive and stylistic range, as well as influencing other | ||||||
| 22 | jazz demographics; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, The AACM's motto is "Great Black Music, Ancient to | ||||||
| 2 | the Future"; and
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| 3 | WHEREAS, The AACM has kept jazz music alive throughout an | ||||||
| 4 | ever-changing musical landscape; therefore, be it
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| 5 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 6 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 7 | congratulate the Association for the Advancement of Creative | ||||||
| 8 | Musicians on the occasion of its 50th anniversary and wish them | ||||||
| 9 | many more successful years; and be it further
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| 10 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 11 | presented to the AACM as an expression of our esteem and | ||||||
| 12 | respect.
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