"Sound is the connecting energy to our African past. When thrown into the Middle Passage and the babble of languages, then given this foreign language, English, that had to be learned by ear in this foreign land, Africans, even though they spoke different languages, found a connection and an umbrella culture emerging from the different ethnic groups thrown together by the brutal rubric of enslavement."
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On how music came into play in Some Sing, Some Cry in “Sister Act: PW Talks with Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza” in Publishers Weekly (2010 Jul 26)
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