Billy Taylor Hamilton College Interview Block 31 (Q10778)

Jazz coming from an African-American point of view, having been created by Africans and their subsequent generations, has continued the same tradition, the griot, and since Africans and African-American slaves were, it was against the law to teach them to read and write in many states, they had to continue the oral tradition. It is my opinion that jazz would not exist if the Virginia and North ...