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For the blues...

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For the blues singer, the world is his text . . . Like any artist, the blues singer has the task of bringing order out of chaos.

Source: The Ethos of the Blues, in The Black Scholar, Summer 1972.
-- Larry Neal, (Sep 5 1937-1981), US editor, poet; He edited, with Amiri Baraka, the important anthology Black Fire, 1968, during the Black Arts Movement.


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