1 Kalamu Ya Salaam, What Is Life: reclaiming the black blues self ( Chicago, IL, Third World Press , 1994), pp. 103-104, 186-187, 202.
2.
2 Marcus Christian, `A black history of Louisiana', Marcus Christian Papers, Archives and Manuscript Division, Earl K. Long Library, University of New Orleans , pp. 319-322.
3.
3 Eugene Genovese, Roll Jordan Roll: the world the slaves made ( London, Andre Deutsch , 1975), p. 411.
4.
Michael Cooley, `Senegambian influences on Afro- American musical culture' , Black Music Research Journal (Vol. 11, no. 1, 1991), pp. 1-18 .
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5 Sidney Bechet, Treat it Gentle ( London, Cassell , 1960), p. 50.
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6 Salaam, op. cit., p. 73.
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7 Ibid., p. 137.
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8 Ibid., p. 136.
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9 Christopher B. Booker, `I Will Wear No Chain!' A social history of African American males ( Westport, CT, Praeger , 2000), p. 211.
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10 Salaam, op. cit., pp. 86-8.
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11 Ibid., p. 34.
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12 Ibid., pp. 216-17.
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13 Ibid., pp. 142-3.
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14 Ibid., p. 143.
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15 Kalamu Ya Salaam, interviewed by Mary Ellison on 3 August 1995.
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16 Amiri Baraka, `The “Blues Aesthetic” and the “Black Aesthetic”: aesthetic as the continuing political history of a culture' , Black Music Research Journal (Vol. 11, no. 2, Autumn 1991), p. 109 .
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17 Kalamu Ya Salaam with Kwame Alexander (eds), 360: a revolution of black poets ( New Orleans, Runnagate Press; Alexandria, Black Words , 1998), pp. 208, 204.
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18 Ibid., p. 156.
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19 Salaam, Life, op. cit., p. 7.
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20 Salaam, Life, op. cit., pp. 14-17.
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21 Kalamu Ya Salaam, `Ruby Dee Eyes', in Kalamu Ya Salaam and Kysha N. Brown (eds), Fertile Ground: memories and visions ( New Orleans, Runnagate Press , 1996), pp. 112-113.
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22 Kalamu Ya Salaam, `All For One', New Orleans Tribune (August 1987), p. 43.
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23 Salaam, Life, op. cit., p. 198.
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24 Kalamu Ya Salaam, liner notes to Standing Ovation by Germaine Bazzle ( New Orleans , All For One-93-0228, 1991).
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25 Salaam/Ellison, op. cit.
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26 Kalamu Ya Salaam, `Guarding the flame of life', Offbeat (January 1999), pp. 50-51.
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27 Kalamu Ya Salaam, My Story, My Song ( New Orleans , All For One-95-1128-2, 1995).
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28 Kalamu Ya Salaam, `Ellis Marsalis', Program ( Lafayette, Festival Internationale de Louisiana , 1990), p. 20.
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29 Kalamu Ya Salaam, `It didn't jes grew: the social and aesthetic significance of African American music' , African American Review (Vol. 29, no. 2, Summer 1995), p. 352 .
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30 Danny Barker, interviewed by Mary Ellison on 20 April 1993.
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31 Salaam, Story, op. cit.
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32 Quotation taken from private screening of video, accompanied by comments from Kalamu Ya Salaam on 6 August 2001.
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33 Kalamu Ya Salaam, interviewed by Mary Ellison on 6 August 2001.
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34 Salaam, Life, op. cit., p. 121.
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35 Ibid., p. 122.
36.
36 Ibid., p. 123.
37.
37 bell hooks, Killing Rage: ending racism ( Harmondsworth, Penguin , 1995), p. 95.
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38 Salaam/Ellison, op. cit., 6 August 2001.
39.
39 Ibid.
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40 Kalamu Ya Salaam, `Malcolm, My Son' , African American Review (Vol. 27, no. 1, Spring 1993), pp. 99, 103 .
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41 Ibid., p. 106.
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42 Salaam, Life, op. cit., pp. 167, 179.
43.
43 Ibid., p. 181.
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44 Kalamu Ya Salaam, `Interviewed by Jordan Green', American Poets Interview Series ( Beaver Dam, Tilt-A-Whirl Press , 1998), p. 11.
