"A whole generation of young whites have involved……" — Archie Shepp

"A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music."

17 Quotes by Archie Shepp

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All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.
I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they…
I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what…
In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last…
So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a…
And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had…
So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks…
Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense…
To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material.…
Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the…
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the…

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