But nevertheless he was optimistic about the music's future potential: if it was possible for the blues to combine two entirely different musical traditions--African and European-- to produce a new and distinctive sound, why shouldn't a new music appear which combines Chinese and Western traditions?
如果藍調音樂可以硬生生將非洲和歐洲兩種截然不同的音階湊在一起，產生出獨特的音樂語法，為什麼不可能出現融合中西的新音樂？