...the "forms of things unknown," specifically, musical inscriptions of such forms: Negro music alone, because it drew its strengths and beauties out of...constant and willful dilutions of the black middle class. Blues and jazz have been the only consistent exhibitors of "Negritude" in informal American...

...to imitate the norms of white middle-class life and art in America. By contrast, "Negro music . . . because it drew its strengths and beauties out of...constant and willful dilutions of the black middle class" (Home, p. 106). Clearly, Baraka realizes the traps that the English language and the general...

...black American writers have produced nothing but mediocre works. By contrast: "Negro music . . . , because it drew its strengths and beauties out of...constant and willful dilutions of the black middle class" (p. 106). Baraka logically suggests that black American writers in the future would do well...

...recently to the world at large, that they were not really who they were, ie, Negroes. Negro music alone, because it drew its strengths and beauties out of...constant and willful dilutions of the black middle class. Blues and jazz have been the only consistent exhibitors of "Negritude" in formal American culture...

...Blues People (1963) Baraka states: Only Negro music, because, perhaps, it drew its strength and beauty out of the depth of the black man's soul, and because...constant and willful dilutions of the black middle class and the persistent calls to oblivion made by the mainstream of society. Of, course, that mainstream...

...America, and recently to the world at large, that they were not really... Negroes. Negro music alone, because it drew its strengths and beauties out of...constant and willful dilutions of the black middle class.Both Hughes and Baraka exemplify the way in which middle-class writers de-contextualize and "romanticize...

...where a basic rootedness in black culture was maintained, could significant accomplishments be found, "because it drew its strengths and beauties out of...constant and willful dilutions of the black middle class" (Baraka in Mitchell l994:l65). In other areas of culture, Negroes too readily accepted the European...

...music," has there been a significantly profound contribution by American Negroes Negro music alone, because it drew its strengths and beauties out of...the depth of the black man's soul, and because to a larger extent its traditions could be carried on by the lowest classes of Negroes, has been able to...

...of black music: Only Negro music because, perhaps, it drew its strength and beauty out of the depths of the black man's soul, and because to a large extent...constant and willful dilutions of the black middle class and the persistent calls to oblivion made by the mainstream of the society. (BLUES PEOPLE 131...