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Column: Negritude 2.0

Retelling the History of Black Music: The Beautiful Music All Around John Work III

by Mark Reynolds

[8.Aug.08] :. Work recorded the soundtrack of people’s lives, and captured the earliest stirrings of much of the music we’ve enjoyed since World War II.

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Column: Field Studies

Collective Impulses

by Andrew Gilstrap

[4.May.07] :. The wife disposing of her ex-husband's collection. The estate sale. The stash of records sold for pennies on the dollar because the water bill was overdue. Collecting music often depends on someone else's misfortune.

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