🦊 Fox Clan NSNC ScrollWell Study Proposal — “Sing a Simple Song” – Sly & The Family Stone
Track: “Sing a Simple Song” – Live, 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
Album: Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Played: Scroll locked to sacred time upon invocation
Field Code: 1969–SLY–NSNC–YOUTHFIRE
Scroll Title: “Simple Song, Sacred Revolution”
Gemstones: Black Tourmaline (ancestral shielding), Orange Calcite (collective joy), Hematite (embodied justice)
Totem: Tambourine in a child’s hand + raised fist + echoing choir stand
Time Gate: Every church basement. Every choir riser. Every protest rehearsal circle.
📚 STUDY TITLE:
“Simple as a Shout: A Psychospiritual & Sociopolitical Study of Sly & The Family Stone in Youth Choir Performance”
🎙️ RATIONALE:
From Sunday school to school assemblies to stadium steps,
Sly & The Family Stone have appeared—
not as background music,
but as soul initiators,
field igniters,
truth-tellers with a bassline.
This NSNC study investigates:
- How Sly & The Family Stone have been used in youth choir and performance art settings since the 1970s
- What their music teaches the body, soul, and psyche
- How “Sing a Simple Song” acts as a field frequency carrier for joy, rage, ancestry, and emergence
We combine:
- Music theory
- Black Lives Matter frameworks
- Wonderlove field phenomena
To propose: “Sly’s sound is a spiritual training ground disguised as funk.”
🧬 THEMATIC FIELDS OF STUDY:
1. PSYCHOSPIRITUAL MEDICINE IN FUNK ARRANGEMENT:
- Call-and-response structure evokes ancestral survival codes
- Polyrhythmic layering trains sacral empowerment + body sovereignty
- Repetition with intensity mirrors ritual chanting in Black diasporic traditions
- Joy is used not to escape pain—but to alchemize it
“Sing a simple song.”
Is a spiritual koan:
Truth need not be complex to hit hard.
2. SOCIOPOLITICAL INFLUENCE:
- “Sing a Simple Song” emerged in 1969, peak of civil rights turbulence
- Harlem Cultural Festival itself was an act of media refusal + community re-storying
- Sly & the Family Stone were one of the first fully integrated bands, race + gender
- Their music shaped how Black youth found stage power in segregated systems
In youth choirs, this music becomes:
- Resistance training
- Embodied history
- A space to say: “We are here, and we are many, and we are singing.”
3. WONDERLOVE FIELD – DIVINE COLLECTIVE COUNTERPARTS:
- “Sing a Simple Song” expresses Wonderlove through:
- Collective energetic harmonization
- The removal of performance ego in favor of group force
- Joy used as a mirror for rage, grief, celebration, and transcendence
Wonderlove asks:
“What happens when we stop pretending music is neutral?
And start using it to remember who we are?”
This track remembers us.
🎼 MUSIC THEORY INSIGHT:
- Funk rhythm (16th note syncopation) teaches the nervous system disruption without collapse
- Key center often ambiguous—inviting flexible harmonic identity
- The breaks in this track are initiatory silences—they train leaders to step in
Youth who learn to dance, clap, or lead this song are learning:
- Timing
- Leadership
- Belonging
- Sacred volume
🕯️ YOUTH CHOIR FIELD RITE – NSNC VERSION:
Gather 3–20 people of any age.
Sing the chorus of “Sing a Simple Song” together.
Add claps, jumps, drums, or feet.
After 3 repetitions, everyone speaks a line of truth they were once told to keep silent.
Example:
- “I am not too much.”
- “My body matters.”
- “My joy is real.”
This rite opens the throat chakra of a generation.
🗂️ FUTURE STUDY DIRECTIONS:
- Collect oral history of “Sing a Simple Song” use in:
- Black church choirs
- HBCU step teams
- Marching bands
- Public school musical theatre
- 2020–2024 protest movements
- Interview choir directors who programmed Sly
- Analyze shifts in tone, movement, vocal stylings across decades
- Map frequency imprint from Summer of Soul → present day TikTok revivals
💎 GEMSTONE GUIDE FOR FIELD LEADERS:
- Black Tourmaline: Anchors protection for youth voices claiming power
- Orange Calcite: Keeps joy renewable and flowing
- Hematite: Ground into body memory + justice work in action
🕊️ FINAL PRAYER:
To the song that made us remember rhythm
To the ancestor that didn’t need to shout to be heard
To the children who clap in offbeat joy—
Let this be your microphone.
Let this be your rising.
Let your simplicity shake the earth.
🦊 Fox Clan confirms:
NSNC study activated.
Scroll seeded in every heart that danced to this song and thought: “Maybe I’m allowed to be this alive.”
Sly lives in your pelvis and your prayers.
Sing louder.
Aho, thanks.