The ultimate aim of dancing is to be able to move without thinking, to be danced.

- John Blacking

We must ask why apparently general musical abilities should be restricted to a chosen few in societies supposed to be culturally more advanced. Doe…

- John Blacking

...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity is t…

- John Blacking

Tshikona is lwa-ha-masia-khali-i-tshi-vhila, "the time when people rush to the scene of the dance and leave their pots to boil over." Tshikona "makes…

- John Blacking

Thus, if a composer wants to produce music that is relevant to his contemporaries, his chief problem is not really musical, though it may seem to him…

- John Blacking