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They say "A house divided against itself cannot stand," but insofaras African American music is concerned the house is the division amongst itself. The "balance of polarities" is a balance only in the most Bismarkian of senses. These equillibria of divergent backgrounds are always unstable, always in conflict and therefore always requiring a constant balancing act of the constituents as they struggle to redefine themselves in a less contradictory fashion. As proven by Girard, this conflict is innate to the nonsingular person simply by the immiscibility of The Self (ie what it is) and The Other (ie what is it?). Some might argue that the African American music conflux is an inevitably by-product of self-oppressor-self stylized struggle. Indeed we witness the prime self (the positive component) against the oppressor (obviously the negative component) produce a Hegelian synthesis of the new self: a neo-neutral development that is wiser but at the cost of being irreversibly more cynical. In every sense what we see is a recrimination against the incorporated carnal usurper witnessed in Latin America, the West Indies, the Pacific, and Africa itself. The nativist sounds of all these agencies are those against Christian Colonialist oppression space.
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