Ralph Ellison Quote

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Shadow and Act (1964).

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music … an obscene looting of a cultural expression.