African Journey: A Search for the Roots of the Blues
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African Journey: A Search for the Roots of the Blues
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African Journey: A Search for the Roots is a blues album by an American historian Samuel Charters and an attempt to trace the roots and influences of American blues from the 1920s and 1930s back to the tribal music of West Africa. He draws connections and similarities through song content and instrument type and usage. In 1974 he traveled the length of the crescent from Senegal to Nigeria. He then returned to travel up the Gambia River to a slave pen at Jang Jang Bure. His travel path emulated t
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Blues album by American historian Samuel Charters
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Journey:_A_Search_for_the_Roots_of_the_Blues
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2022-11-20T16:44:03Z
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