(20 Feb 2025)
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Memphis, Tennessee – 30 January 2025
1. Wide of students walking down hallway at Stax Music Academy
2. Close-up shot through window on practice room
3. Student playing trumpet
4. Wide of musical director leading band
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Franklin IV, musical director, Stax Music Academy:
"I’ve seen tremendous growth in a lot of the students here. You know a lot of students are you know are being shaped into leaders, you know. Learning how to lead, knowing how to properly say things, do things, you know reading music. A lot of, a lot of the kids, they were, you know, were struggling but seeing them actually hungry for, seeing them actually want to learn how to do things that they never thought that they could be able to do."
6. Close-up on guitar neck
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Brandon Wooten, student at Stax Music Academy:
"I like to see Stax music as the soundtrack to basically the Black History movement or the Civil Rights movement in general or just anything back then. Because everything that was going on, you just listen to Stax music and that’s literally the soundtrack to everything."
8. tight on Zalissa Stewart teaching students
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Zalissa Stewart, instructor at Stax Music Academy:
"We’ve been teaching them the songs, teaching them about what they’re singing. It’s not just getting up here, you know singing a song. You have to portray whatever artist that you’re singing and be able to touch somebody in the audience."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Cole, student at Stax Music Academy (singing ‘(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay"):
"Sitting in the morning sun, I’ll be sitting when the evening comes."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Zalissa Stewart, instructor at Stax Music Academy (singing "B-A-B-Y")
"Baby, oh baby, I love to call you baby."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Pasley Thompson, student at Stax Music Academy (singing "A Rose is Still a Rose")
"There was a rose I knew, I met her once or twice before. She was a pretty sweet thing, not the least bit insecure ."
13. Mid of Pasley Thompson singing
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Pasley Thompson, student at Stax Music Academy:
"We have so much music. Soul. Even going past the inspiration of Stax has inspired a very distinct hip hop sound. Like Memphis has so much to offer and I think being able to show that off, not just in my own work but showing people what we already have to offer and why we are the city that we are. It’s a really, really… it’s a big task but I’m very excited to pursue it."
15. Close-up of student playing the keyboard
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Johnathan McKinney, student at Stax Music Academy:
"I would describe Stax as change. That’s the word that I would use because it drastically changed how music was formed, as soon as Stax became…uh as soon as Stax Records was made. I believe that it was definitely an advocate for civil rights and it really helped us out in the long run and it still does today."
17. Student looking at sheet music
18. Students stepping together with the music
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Cole, student at Stax Music Academy:
"It feels good because with the world going crazy right now, everybody just needs a little bit of love, happiness and music. And that’s what Stax Music Academy has always been about: love, music, creativity. And this Black History Month show is really gonna display it. I mean we got a lot of people coming so. It’s all it’s all about love."
20. Wide of the exterior of Stax Music Academy
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