Ursa's Singing Analysis

After her first show, she meets Mutt, her future ex-husband, for the first time. He calls her out and asks where she heard the songs she was singing during that performance. She explains to him that she wrote those songs herself. He comments that although she tries to “sing hard” (Jones 148), she is not a hard woman. When Ursa first writes and performs the songs she is not speaking from her own personal experience; however, this changes when she first hands experiences a tragic event. Mutt, her husband at the time, became frustrated with Ursa because she refused to stop singing. He was “looking drunk and evil” when they engaged in a verbal argument (Jones 3). During this verbal altercation, Mutt pushed Ursa down the stairs. Ursa was rushed
This more effective strategy allows many others to relate to her songs and relive the memories of the ancestors before themselves. Ursa’s singing tells countless of crowds during multiple shows in a day over decades. That means that the experiences and memories of her ancestors and herself were shared to many more people and more rapid than if she had a few children. Alice Walker explains the notion that a daughter’s artistic work can extend back to her past generations. This provides another reason why Ursa is still able to let her family’s story to live, enduring past her own life. Ursa was “guided by my [her] heritage of a respect of strength- in search of my [her] mother’s garden- I [she] found her own” (Walker 243). Ursa’s garden may not by like her mothers, the ability to bear children, but she has the creation of song and the power of her hard voice has on the crowds of many. It is with her garden she can sort out her psychological scars of a lack of sexual pleasure and desire, a lack of long lasting emotional attachment, and a lack of self-worth. The powerful weapon of Art, especially in Black Feminism, allows Black women to channel their frustrations and despair into tangible things that people can see or hear daily in their everyday