{"id":1367,"date":"2014-07-25T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historyapolis.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2024-01-10T13:43:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T19:43:35","slug":"creativity-north-side-past-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/2014\/07\/25\/creativity-north-side-past-present\/","title":{"rendered":"The creativity of the North Side, past and present"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Published July 25, 2014 by Daniel Bergin<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Our guest blogger today is Daniel Bergin, Senior Producer at Twin Cities Public Television and the director\/producer of \u201cCornerstones: A History of North Minneapolis.\u201d<\/a> First broadcast in 2011 on TPT\u2019s Minnesota channel, this documentary about the history of the enclave known as the \u201cNorthside\u201d was co-produced by TPT and the University of Minnesota\u2019s Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC). Today he writes about the creative milieu of the city’s North Side, which has fostered some of our community’s most notable writers, artists and musicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thirty summers ago, the film \u2018Purple Rain\u2019 premiered to long lines. The film became an instant cult classic, making a local prodigy an international icon. The film focuses on Downtown streetscapes and the famous \u2018Lake Minnetonka\u2019 scene.\u00a0 But the musician’s creative origins are located on the North Side, a part of the city with a rich musical history.<\/p>\n

After trouble at home, Prince was welcomed into the house of North Minneapolis matriarch Bernadette Anderson. Prince and her son Andre (Cymone) created what became known in the 1980s as the “Minneapolis Sound” in the Anderson basement.\u00a0 This photo from the Hennepin History Museum was taken by Bernadette\u2019s daughter Sylvia Anderson. Click here<\/a> to listen to Bernadette’s son Edward Anderson describe the musicians’ connection to the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Prince is one of the most recent musical talents to emerge from North Minneapolis. decades ealier, two North Side residents– Ira and Oscar Pettiford– -brought a “Minneapolis sound” to the jazz world. Click here<\/a> to hear Ira’s widow describe how the brothers changed jazz in Minnesota and beyond.<\/p>\n

Pivotal in this musical history is the Phyllis Wheatley House.\u00a0 Segregated downtown hotels sent American legends like Paul Robeson and Marian Anderson to the North Side where they stayed at the Phyllis Wheatley House and performed for the settlement\u2019s children and families.\u00a0<\/a> That legacy stayed with many North Siders, infusing the creative milieu that Prince\u2019s father, and first musical influence, would enjoy when he moved to Minnesota.<\/p>\n

This weekend, you can celebrate both the Pettiford brothers and “Purple Rain” as part of “Flow,” the North Side art-crawl that highlights the creative esprit of North Minneapolis. A lively affirmation of the urban creative class, this festival extends along West Broadway and beyond, anchored by long-standing arts centers like Juxtapositon Arts, the Lundstrum Center and the Capri. In fact in the \u201870s the Capri was one of the early venues, for the explosively talented teenager.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the stories flowing from the North Side this summer often haven\u2019t been good. \u00a0There has been too much violence, and the news that follows.\u00a0 So his weekend, eschew news of guns and knives. Focus on the products of cameras, pens and brushes, what one-time North Side denizen Gordon Parks called his \u2018weapons of choice.” Experience the power of creative place-making. And join the North Side as it revels in the power of arts, past and present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Published July 25, 2014 by Daniel Bergin Our guest blogger today is Daniel Bergin, Senior Producer at Twin Cities Public Television and the director\/producer of \u201cCornerstones: A History of North Minneapolis.\u201d First broadcast in 2011 on TPT\u2019s Minnesota channel, this documentary about the history of the enclave known as the \u201cNorthside\u201d was co-produced by TPT…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mvt.rpw.mybluehost.me\/.website_3d6664ec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}