The sounds of music: Tracing memories and pathways through research and resistance by Jheannelle Johnson instant download

The sounds of music: Tracing memories and pathways through research and resistance by Jheannelle Johnson instant download

Jheannelle Johnson is a winner of the fifth annual Rising Black Scientists Awards for ascholar in the life and health sciences. We asked emerging Black scientists to tell usabout their scientific vision and goals, experiences that sparked their interest inscience, how they want to contribute to a more inclusive scientific community, andhow these all fit together on their journey. This is her story.What do Michael Jackson, Beres Hammond, and Shania Twain all have in common? Other thanbeing critically acclaimed Grammy-nominated artists, they all had a place in my grandmother’shouse. In fact, I consider them to be my first ‘‘science teachers,’’ as I spent hours learning andreplicating their music long before I understood how to develop hypotheses or follow experimentalprotocols. These early experiences with music were cultivated by my family, especially mygrandmother. Music is the fabric woven into my scientific foundation as I spent years training myears to hear and reproduce the right notes on my piano or experimenting with the range andsounds of my voice. It’s a universal language that all of us understand and connect to in a way thattranscends native tongues and cultural differences, or in my case, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), acondition that slowly took my grandmother from me.