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The Igorrotes experienced a now familiar blend of excited bewilderment. They had journeyed halfway across the world, and had rattled across eleven US states, through wide-open plains and busy railroad junctions. They had grown accustomed to new sights and sounds but nothing could have prepared them for their arrival in America’s greatest city.
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discourse—for both the nationalists and avant-guard, Trane fulfilled this need. But the point is simply that this construction proceeded without Coltrane’s complicity. As Saul puts it, “While Coltrane was loath to attach his music to a specific political ideology, preferring the language of universal spirituality, he became posthumously an icon of
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