American Vernacular Quotes by Albert Murray

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Albert Murray has 11 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The United States is not a nation of black and white people. Any fool can see that white people are not really…
• I am not an African. I am an American.
• When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of…
• 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…
• Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited…
• Now, one can often get away with playing music by ear when it is not being recorded, but writing is another matter;…
• Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially…
• 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…
• The improvisational nature of jazz musicianship is such that a truly competent performer must be prepared to function as an on-the-spot composer…
• 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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