James Baldwin, "The Fire Next Time" (1963): "In all jazz, and especially the blues, there is something tart and ironic, authoritative and double-edged. White Americans seem to feel that happy songs are happy and sad songs are sad, and that, God help us, is exactly the way most white Americans sing them ..."
The Raku Study Group December 19, 2021 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82770320540?pwd=L1hscy9wVDhobFFwZWFmQksrZDliZz09 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/282697483/
