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So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Chance Guy Him Himself Idea Just Learned Like Lot Maybe Me Out Partnership Rebel Symbiotic Take Take A Chance Taylor Turned Very Would Young Young Guy

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You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Catharsis Critical Dancing Essentially Event Get Jumping People Profound Sense Show Up Where You

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

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Audience Call Element Important Music Response Yes

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Today, music is visual.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Music Today Visual

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To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Actually Audience Avant-Garde Because Certain Considered Degree Few Few People Know Material Might Music Number Only People Play Realize Some Though Understand Yeah

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So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Almost Anyway Black Blues Element Everybody Grows Kind Only Organically Out People Physical Quality Rap Really Speaks Today White You Young Young People Youth

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Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Actually American Before Community Hispanic Impacted Larger Long Rap Root Then Took Whole

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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

Topics: After Culture Decade Existential How Idea Improvisational Innovative Matter Music Musical Nothing Sacred Threatened

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It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Artistic Becoming Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Establishment European Exciting Exciting Time Interesting Jazz Movement Part Particularly Political Revolution Rights Rights Movement Time Turned

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In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.

~Archie Shepp

Topics: Beat Certainly Commercial Dance Drum Element Even More Music Poetry Rap Rap Music Strong Though Value Very Without Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: May 24th, 1937

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