A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The power of English in jazz and rock to accommodate itself to Negro dance and music may have significance here. So far as I know, it is impossible to sing rock in any other language but English. It has been tried.
Letter to Wm. Anthony Seymour, March 7, 1962 (LAC)
Year: 1962
Chapter: Jazz
Compiled by William Kuhns
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