Author: Archie Shepp

Quotes

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

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

- Archie Shepp

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

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

- Archie Shepp

Today, music is visual.

Today, music is visual.

- Archie Shepp

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

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

- Archie Shepp

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