Everyday People Sly Stone's pleas for peace and equality between differing races and social groups, a major theme and focus for the band. The Family Stone featured Caucasians Greg Errico and Jerry Martini in its lineup, as well as females Rose Stone and Cynthia Robinson; making it the first major integrated band in rock history. Sly and the Family Stone's message was about peace and equality through music, and this song reflects the same. Unlike the band's more typically funky and psychedelic records, "Everyday People" is a mid-tempo number with a more mainstream pop feel. Sly, singing the main verses for the
The Practice of Everyday Life The Practice of Everyday Life The Practice of Everyday Life is a book by Michel de Certeau which examines the ways in which people individualise mass culture, altering things, from utilitarian objects to street plans to rituals, laws and language, in order to make them their own. It was originally published in French as "L'invention du quotidien. Vol. 1, Arts de faire"' (1980). The 1984 English translation is by Steven Rendall. The book is one of the key texts in the study of everyday life. "The Practice of Everyday Life" re-examines related fragments and theories from Kant and Wittgenstein to