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I am not an African. I am an American.
The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer who... →
If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American... →
Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter; its mistakes are not forgotten... →
The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really white, and that black people are not... →
A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar... →
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of... →
When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the... →
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been... →
The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the... →
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