The jazz artist who becomes nationally known is written about as though he came into existence only upon his arrival in New York. His career in the big cities, where jazz is more of a commercial entertainment than part of a total way of life, is stressed at the expense of his life in the South, the Southwest, and the Midwest, where most Negro musicians at least found their early development. Thus we are left with an impression of mysterious rootlessness, and the true and often annoying complexity of American cultural experience is oversimplified.
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I learned more from Invisible Man than from any other book; that was the one that made me study literature.
And yeah, I've been planning to re-read Invisible Man. It's been over a decade since I tackled it the first time and I'm ready to revisit it with a new perspective.
Yeah, that was how I read it; past predispositions on jazz are still aplicable to current hip hop. The cycle repeats.