Azizi,

       I strongly agree with your observations about music and dance. There is little, if any, music that arose in the Americas in which the influence of Blacks in America can not be clearly discerned. And all of it is music to be moved to. Jazz, blues, spirituals, rock'n roll, and old time and bluegrass (banjo and clogging), sambas, rumbas, etc. etc. These are all forms of music that call the body to dance, to participate in the making of the music. The drummers and the dancers in African music are parts of a whole, and that tradition has clearly been carried on into those forms of music now generally considered to have arisen in the Americas.

    I wonder, also, if part of the reason those songs of the 60's seem slow to you now is a reflection of how the reintroduction of African music-dance to American audiences is again influencing our music.

    And I ain't sure how this post may relate to Blacks and Folk Clubs.

Janie