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Joel Bailes at Blues & Swing Week
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley On this episode of The Jack Dappa Blues Podcast, I speak with Joel Bailes, historian, musician, and husband of a Blues Harp Woman at Augusta’s Blues & Swing Week, which provides participants with the opportunity to work with some of the finest performers and educators in the Blues and…
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African American Tribal Music Revisited: A Blues Ecological and Narrative Reframing
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Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley African American Tribal Music What I once called African American Tribal Music — a term that sought to name the deep, complex musical expressions of Black people in America — is now sharpened by the theoretical lenses of Blues Ecology, Blues Narrative, and Black Southern Afro-Indigenous epistemologies. These frameworks allow us to understand our…