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Expanding Our View of the Blues

September 29, 2015 by: Roger Hahn

It seems that we may have gotten the blues all wrong.

Instead of the taproot of American popular music, drawing on work songs, spirituals, and juke joint rhythms, the blues now appear to be simply one genre of Afric...

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