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Albert Murray has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really…
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I am not an African. I am an American.
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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of…
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The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
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As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it…
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Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited…
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Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter;…
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Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially…
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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…
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The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer…
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The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet…
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With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and…
— Tony Shalhoub
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Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing…
— Unknown Author
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With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius.…
— Frank Sinatra
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Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.
— Robert Crumb
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It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical…
— Kurt Weill
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Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world…
— Billy Joel
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We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The…
— Billy Joel
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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…
— Albert Murray
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