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“This form of yawps, squawks, and countless repetitive runs … should be confined to the woodshed.”7 Once again, these critics illustrated an ignorance of the syntax and semantics of Black American music culture.
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music
The voices of dissent are naysayers, the skeptics, who not only question this initiative but question whatever is on the agenda for today. They are princes of darkness, often resting on the negative. But they are valuable for implementing adaptive change because they are canaries in the coal mine, early-warning systems, and because in addition to b
... See moreRonald A. Heifetz • The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
Principled Opposition: Example 4 We affirm that social injustice still exists and that scholarship on issues of social justice is necessary and important. We affirm the value of interdisciplinary theoretical approaches, including the study of race, gender, sexuality, culture, and identity within the humanities. We affirm that many of the ideas gene
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Good argument scenes feature a reasonable point of view colliding with an unreasonable point of view. Inside Out and Outside In
Bill Arnett • The Complete Improviser: Concepts, Techniques, and Exercises for Long Form Improvisation
apologetic; it is an apologetic.
James K. A. Smith • Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church
A point of view is different from having a point.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The advocates and defenders of the black jazz avant-garde and the emergent black cultural nationalists had to distance themselves from what they took to be the threat to their project of black freedom—bebop as jazz authenticity, and cultural assimilation as the solution to black cultural subordination.