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. . . It is impossible to have a music that is not
based on the rhythms of a particular tongue or
speech. Speech is the “hidden” ground for the music
as figure in any culture whatever. There are specific
and complex reasons why the oral tradition of
American Southern speech constitutes the only
possible ground for jazz and rock. Some of these
reasons include the fact that English is almost the
only language in the world that has actual feet and
not mere syllables. Equally basic is the relation of
English to the metropolitan patterns of industrial
sound. New technological sounds and patterns are
processed through the speech in order to become
“music.” To people who do not understand this