British Blue Notes

Author : Phil Tagg
Last Update : 2006-01-06

British blue notes and backbeats─ musicological missing links ─ An example of how musicology can contribute to the defalsification of canonic consensus in the history of North American popular music

Phil Tagg (Professor of Music at the University of Montreal) explains the politics of sound with regards to blue notes and white people.
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2006-03-28 hi phil - this is jan fairley writing to you from stgo de cuba with alexandrina fournier phd student of pete wade at mchester and montreal anthrop student for masters we are looking at web site hot here at mindight love to you janxxxxx
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