'For Centuries, Black Music, Forged In Bondage, Has Been The Sound Of Complete Artistic Freedom. No Wonder Everybody Is Always Stealing It.'
"Americans have made a political investment in a myth of racial separateness, the idea that art forms can be either 'white' or 'black' in character … This country's music is an advertisement for 400 years of the opposite: centuries of 'amalgamation' and 'miscegenation' as they long ago called it, of all manner of interracial collaboration […]