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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Just a few lines of the inside parts.

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See they never know what I'm gonna ask them, so I pop these things out. We have to give them a second so they pull it together, but they're quick.

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{SPEAKER = "Group singing"}
Burning and burning and burning. Mmhmm.
I'm on fire,
'cause you've got me burning and burning and burning, yeah.
I'm on fire.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker 1"}
Alright! You hear that?

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So that way, you have everything covered. You have all the extremes, but the other factor is that no single performer only does one thing.

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They're required to not only be able to sing bass but sometime my man Al there will sing lead in the same way brother Duke can sing bass. Sometimes he will assume the role of soloist with the group.

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Now there's another important factor. I told you they have to look good in the way that they dress, but they also have to be able to use their bodies.

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You see rarely are you going to see an Afro-American musician that's just gonna stand flat-footed on the stage.

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[[distant laughter]]
They move. And they learn to move from the time that they are very young.

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Now, if in the religious tradition, there is a form of sacred dance as you move. It's not considered in the same way that you look at dancing that's done in the night clubs.

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However, it's still very much related. It moves in sync to what's going on musically.

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So these gentlemen, uh, are going to demonstrate for you how important that is to their music. We call that - I'm an ethnomusicologist, and you know these college professors can always think of these fancy-dancy terms for everything.

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And we call that integration of song and dance. In other words, in Afro-American music, you don't separate music from the use of the body,

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-but rather dancing, be it sacred dance or secular dance, is an important and necessary part of performance. And that's why you always are going to have the bodies moving in some way.

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And usually, the bodies are going to be moving in sync. In other words, togetherness is going to be evident in the group.

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Uh, somebody out there might not believe me. So, can I get a little hit, gentlemen, from you all? A demonstration of that.

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