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Animal Spirits

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

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The White Negro by Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer was a devotee of jazz as an emblem of American-based musical vitality. "The White Negro" casts black people in a kind of narrow role as embodiments of sexual vitality and a broader vitality too, but there's no question that the sexual vitality is at the core of it," he says.

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