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Article: Dedicated to the struggle: black music, transculturation, and the aural making and unmaking of the third world.(Critical essay)
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- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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But the black musician, he picks up his horn and starts blowing some sounds that be never thought of before. He improvises, he creates, it comes from within. It's his soul, it's that soul music. ... Well, likewise he can do the same thing if given intellectual independence.... He can invent a society, a social system, an economic system, a political system that is different from anything that exists on this earth. He will improvise, he will bring it from within himself. And this is what you and I want.
--Malcolm X
On February 15, 1961, Adiai E. Stevenson Jr., Kennedy's new ambassador to the United Nations, rose to defend the Security Council's handling ...