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Floyd, Jr., Editor Emeritus  \nGuthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., Editor  \n1. California Soul: Music of African Americans in the West, edited by Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje and Eddie S. Meadows  \n2. William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions, by Catherine Parsons Smith  \n3. Jazz on the Road: Don Albert’s Musical Life, by Christopher Wilkinson  \n4. Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars, by William A. Shack  \n5. Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West, by Phil Pastras  \n6. What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists, by Eric Porter  \n7. Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop, by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr.  \n8. Lining Out the Word: Dr. Watts Hymn Singing in the Music of Black Americans, by William T. Dargan  \n9. Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba, by Robin D. Moore  \n10. From Afro-Cuban Rhythms to Latin Jazz, by Raul A. Fernandez  \n11. “Mek Some Noise”: Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad, by Timothy Rommen  \n12. The Memoirs of Alton Augustus Adams, Sr.: First Black Bandmaster of the United States Navy, edited with an introduction by Mark Clague, with a foreword by Samuel Floyd, Jr.  \n13. Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music, by Amiri Baraka  \nDigging  \nThe Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music  \nAmiri Baraka  \nUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley . Los Angeles . London  \nUniversity of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, [visit www.ucpress.edu](visit www.ucpress.edu).  \nUniversity of California Press  \nBerkeley and Los Angeles, California  \nUniversity of California Press, Ltd. London, England  \n© 2009 by Amiri Baraka  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934–  \nDigging : the Afro-American soul of American classical music / Amiri Baraka.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Music of the African diaspora ; 13) ISBN 978-0-520-25715-3 (cloth : alk. paper)  \n1. African Americans—Music—History and criticism. 2. Music—History and criticism. 3. African American musicians. I. Title.  \nML3556. B1612 2009  \n780.89'96073—dc22 2008025976 Manufactured in the United States of America  \n18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ansi/niso z39.48–1992 (r 1997) (Permanence of Paper) .  \nLittle of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom: the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty. And so by fateful chance the Negro folk-song—the rhythmic cry of the slave—stands today not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the seas. It has been neglected, it has been, and is, half despised, and above all it has been persistently mistaken and misunderstood; but notwithstanding, it still remains as the singular spiritual heritage of the nation and the greatest gift of the Negro people.  \nW. E. B. 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