If Black music is truly The Model for young Black filmmakers then - TopicsExpress

If Black music is truly The Model for young Black filmmakers then the challenge is this: Robert Johnson Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong didnt go knocking pn Columbia Records doors; Columbia Records came looking for them. Not least because they could squeeze everything that needed to be said into a three minute song form. When they came into music the pinnacle of musical artistry was the 100 piece orchestra--the early blues and jazz people flipped the paradigm. Charlie Parker compressed a symphonys work of musicality into a 8 bar solo. Black cinema needs to discover its equivalent to the 12 bar blues and the Motown 45.