A Whole Generation Of Young Whites Have

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.

Negro Music And Culture Are Intrinsically Improvisational, Existential. Nothing Is Sacred. After A Decade, A Musical Idea, No Matter How Innovative, Is Threatened.

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.

And When I Met Cecil Taylor It Was A Complete Transformation Of Musical Identities. All The Tenets That I Had Grown Up With Were Thrown Out The Window.

All The Tenets That I Had Grown Up With Were Thrown Out The Window.