Cornel West Pynchon Mention on

[Dave Monroe]

Cornel West Commentary: Universal Blues 
 
African Americans are often called "blues people" --
but commentator Cornel West goes even further,
suggesting that the blues is one of the universal
characteristics of the last century. 
 
http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgDate=19-Nov-2003&prgId=14

Also ...

Pass the Mic!
Beginning Dec. 10, 2003, NPR's Tavis Smiley joins
regular commentators Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel
West in an historic, six-city speaking tour called
Pass The Mic!

http://www.npr.org/programs/tavis/

--- Judith Panetta <judy at firemist.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone hear the Pynchon mention by Cornel West on
> the Tavis Smiley show last night? In a discussion
> of the blues as a "philosophic disposition toward
> the world" and an "idiom of the 20th century." I
> found the discussion to be both compelling and
> provocative.

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