musicology 
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SOURCE: The Conversation
8/24/2021
Charlie Watts Put Some Jazz in Rock and Roll
by Victor Coelho
"In an era when rock drummers were larger-than-life showmen with big kits and egos to match, Charlie Watts remained the quiet man behind a modest drum set. But Watts wasn’t your typical rock drummer."
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1/31/2021
Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest & White Denial: An Interview With Steven Garabedian
by Aaron J. Leonard
Steve Garabedian's new book reexamines the life and work of Lawrence Gellert, a Jewish New Yorker who relocated to the South, recorded African American songs, and clashed with the growing establishment of white folklorists. Is it time to reappraise Gellert's contributions to the preservation of Black musical culture?
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SOURCE: The Bitter Southerner
8/4/2020
Somebody Died, Babe: A Musical Coverup of Racism, Violence & Greed
by Kevin Kehrberg & Jeffrey A. Keith
The song "Swannanoa Tunnel" has been changed through generations of recordings by white musicians, concealing its origins as a song sung by Black convict-lease laborers who were forced to work in deadly conditions, often as punishment for minor crimes (or no crimes at all).
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SOURCE: NY Times
September 27, 2019
She's Rising from the Depths of Soviet Music History
by Gabrielle Cornish
Interest is building in Galina Ustvolskaya, the reclusive Russian composer born 100 years ago whose nickname was “the lady with the hammer.”
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