Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.
American music culture is black culture.
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
Society wants to categorize everything, but to me it's all African-American music.
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.
Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music.
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