Word: baraka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Imamu Baraka, playwright and chairman of the Congress of African People, called last night for a "violent transition" of capitalism to achieve a multinational socialism in a speech to about 500 people in the Science Center...
...Trying to reform capitalism to achieve scientific capitalism is like painting the insides of a concentration camp," Baraka said. "Life will remain warped until this parasitic structure, monopoly capitalism, is destroyed and the parasites running it are destroyed...
...must turn to Baraka's essay, written four years after this film was made, to find the glue that Bland needs to bind his loosely-constructed "unique suffering" argument together. Rather than ignoring the existence of a few competent white jazz musicians, Baraka admits that some white musicians, "originally Dixieland Jazz Band, Bix, etc. sought not only to understand that phenomenon of the Negro Music, but to appropriate it as a means of expression which they might utilize...
...Baraka also agrees that the black experience is singular but he at least allows the white artists a stab, even if a little off-base, at playing and even writing jazz music...
Regardless of both Bland and Baraka, whites will continue to play (or at least listen to) what they think is jazz. And even if, as both claim, whites will not be able to understand the social or cultural origins of jazz because they have not experienced them, whites will no doubt continue to believe that they even enjoy just the type of jazz that Bland and Baraka say they...