Word: americanizing
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...fair to describe the blues as an African-American musical genre? That's fair. But being Afro-American doesn't mean the blues isn't Anglo-American, too. People become confused and think being Afro-American means you exclude Anglo-Americans. Afro-American is a culture that includes people of all kinds of skin colors. It is a cultural disposition. So, yes, the blues is Afro-American music. But all races play...
...Does the blues target African Americans? No. I don't think it targets any group. Like all art, it targets people. [Richard] Wagner wrote for Germans, but his music was universal. The blues speaks to the experience of the Afro-American people but it's not excluding anybody by doing that...
...sounds and overly sensitive to any kind of distraction which occurs during his performances. In one of the film’s more memorable scenes, a woman at Goldberg’s concert lightly fans herself with her program, sending Aaron into a spiraling frenzy. Ripping a huge American flag from the back of the stage, he whips it back and forth in the concertgoer’s shocked face. “This is what I hear when you do that!” he shouts over the din created by his waving flag of fury. These moments...
...issues that we are facing today: we have a job crisis. People are either out of work or they think they will be out of work.” He added, “I am really a representation of the American Dream...the number one thing you have to do is get an education...
...signs point to the necessity of innovation, but it’s really Don’s meeting with Hilton that forces him to change his trajectory. “I got everything on my own,” says the consummate American businessmen. “It’s made me immune to those who complain and cry because they can’t. I didn’t take you for one of them...