Audience Quote by Archie Shepp

“I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.” quote by Archie Shepp — Download Open image

“I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive.”

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So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy…

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Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

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

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In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is…

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You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially…

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I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father,…

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Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

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All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

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In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance.…

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