![]() We hope that this could be a kick off point and see where we can go for the next step. We'd have people come for a week or two week institute, where we'd talk about the legacy, the origins, the definition, and then also have performance piece with the younger and older people linked up and that could be presented. We roughly thought about one summer, since we have a base in Ithaca at Cornell. Karlton and I finally decided to bring together a group of knowledgeable people, interested people, to see where we could go in terms of creating something that had an institutional base. With that, we have to ask, what's the next stage? Karlton and I saw a period of reflection, refining this, and maybe two months from now, or that too soon? And when we broaden this we're talking about the resources. We hope that people would be committed to be with us on the long haul, because it' just not us. I think that if we can begin even with some people in this room, and some others, that could become the nucleus for a performance piece that would be dynamite. How do we begin to put up a project that would put on a concert that says this is what it is. because we have to be able to counter that. So we've got to decide who are some brothers and sisters who have journalistic skills, and who are committed to vision we have. It seems also that one other piece that we're going to need people who are journalists and public relations people. Also maybe begin to start having some influence so that legacy isn't lost among the current generation. We began to talk about what we can to talk about reflecting on that, how to take command in defining what that tradition is what that culture is. It has a place from which it comes, and it has a genesis. Some of think the name doesn't matter, but how you define it. This way, we can begin to take some control over the definition. Karlton and I wanted to begin with this, and then also to create a forum, a laboratory, where we begin to have the culture, the art showcased, and the experience that you all have had, becomes also a source of education for the people who are coming into the tradition. Then we have to decide what projects are reasonable within the resource, and then move, and how that resource and project targets a particular problem we have. We have to start seeing ourselves moving by stages. Now some of our people think that's a compliment, because it means we're being included, but I see that as problematic, because what they want to do is deny ownership and deny origin by saying in that sense . People begin to start talking about this as the quintessential American music. ![]() James Turner : It's very interesting how our people were, for example, will cling on to everything else except for their own African culture. "A Holistic Approach to the Ownership of African-American Music"Įxcerpts from the meeting of "Call and Response" Karlton Hester and James Turner, Co-Chairs Charles Tolliver, Randy Weston, Bill Hasson, William Johnson, Acklyn Lynch, Makanda McIntyre, Alfred Phillips Jr., Benny Powell, and Richard Jennings (a.o.) ![]()
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