The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 16, 1984 Page: 3 of 8
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O’Brien
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Dr. Barnes
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and farmers in rebellion
Lisa Martin puts music
to feelings
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Lisa Martin was eight years old when
she first launched her part-time career
as a gospel singer — with the Angel
Choir at St. James Baptist Church in
Austin. Some 12 years later, the South
western University senior is composer
of a song recorded by an Austin gospel
choir, Voices of Christ, with Claudia
D. Williams and Kenneth L. Brown.
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She’s been a soprano in the choir since
it was organized in 1981.
Martin’s song, “Restore the Joy,” is
1 - one of eight on the group’s first album.
“Some Glad Mornin’," recorded live
in concert (Agape Love label) at the
Greater Mt. Zion Baptist Church in
Austin A Southwestern marketing
major, Martin recently copyrighted the
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Southwestern student said. Even a
hectic schedule of classes and ac-
tivities with two choirs hasn’t kept her
from composing, more songs, Martin
said.
And yes, she said with a smile, “I’ll
keep them hidden until I’m bold
enough to bring them out.”
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Dr. Donna Barnes, part-time
assistant-professor of Sociology at
SU, is author of Farmers in
Rebellion: The Rise and Fall of the
Southern Farmers Alliance and
People’s Party in Texas.
It is published by the University of
Texas Press.
Farmers in Rebellion recounts the
compelling story of two crucial
movements: the Southern Farmers
Alliance and the People’s Party.
Barnes examines their develop-
mental histories, asking, “Under
what conditions do protest move-
ments remain weak? Under what
conditions do they prosper, amassing
large numbers of supporters? Under
what conditions do successful protest
movements lose their momentum and
wither away?
Dr. Barnes explores these complex
questions by using archival data
which allows her to reflect upon the
adequacy of previous sociological
answers to these questions.
She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology
from the University of Texas in 1982.
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Francis O’Brien, senior professor of
political science at Southwestern Universi-
ty, has been invited to give a paper at the
Paris meeting of the World Congress of
Political Scientists next July.
O’Brien’s paper, “A Comparative Study
of the Judiciaries in France, America,
Switzerland and Ireland,” was chosen by
the Judiciary Section of the American
Political Science Association.
O’Brien has taught courses on the
American judiciary for the past 17 years at
four different colleges in the United States
and for four years in European universities.
He has written numerous scholarly works
on the judiciaries.
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lyrics and tune to her upbeat song that
expresses the way she felt two years ago
.— as she began her sophomore year in
college.
“It was a confusing time because
spiritually I felt there wasn’t enough
time to do everything I wanted to,
especially study my Bible. It got to the
point where I asked myself, ‘Where did
all my joy go?’ ”
Her lyrics, inspired by Psalm 51, ex-
press her wish for the Lord to restore
the joy of her salavation.
“I was living on the third floor of
Kurth Hall at the time,” Martin recall-
ed. “While I was writing it, my room-
mate kept telling me to hush. When it
was finished, I hid it until last
summer.”
Since she doesn’t play the piano,
Martin asked a pianist-friend to sit
down with her and listen to her play
the melody and hum all the parts. The
music and lyrics were thus captured on
paper, and the concert when the album
was recorded live was the premier per-
formance of Martin’s “Restore the
Joy.”
“The choir loved it when I first
showed it to them,” Martin said, “and
it took on more meaning after I told
them why I wrote it.”
Composing a song that has been
recorded and sent to gospel disc
jockeys around the country might seem
like a major accomplishment for so-
meone who has never had a voice
lesson and whose only formal exposure
to music training was in high school
band. However, Martin doesn’t see
formal training as necessarily an asset
in gospel music. “You have to express
the music the way you feel it. Training
isn’t going to give you that expression
or make you feel the emotion.”
Gospel music may have been the
first music she heard after she was born.
Martin said, given the nature of her
family. “I was brought up with gospel
music just about coming out of my
ears — in church, at home and
elsewhere,” she said with a laugh. Her
grandfather, the Reverend E. M.
Franklin, is pastor of St. James Baptist
Church in Austin. Her father. Bill
“The Mailman” Martin, is a gospel DJ
for KIXL and KAZI in Austin. Her
uncle, Ermant Franklin Jr., was
founder of and a former singer with
the Grammy Award-winning Mighty
Clouds of Joy gospel quartet in
Hollywood. Father and uncle operate
Junior and Bill’s Gospel Record Shop
at 5th and Congress in Austin.
Franklin’s sister, Barbara, Martin’s
aunt who is the lead vocalist for the
“Restore the Joy” album recording,
once sang with Ray Charles as a
Raylette. “My first inspiration to sing
and to write music has been my
family,” Martin said.
As a Voices of Christ choir member,
Martin said her weekends are filled
with rehearsals and performances. The
nondenominational choir, made up of
Austin singers from all walks of life,
have performed in California,
Oklahoma, Louisiana and all over
Texas. Last spring the group appeared
on a special program at Southwesern
commemorating Black Heritage Week.
"I probably do more traveling with
another choir. Children of Faith, than
I do with Voices of Christ.” That nine-
member youth group from her church
sings at weddings, church programs
and other events. “My weekend
schedule is so busy that I have never
stayed on campus a single weekend in
more than three years,” the
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