Re: African info?


BAO (tunde@arches.uga.edu)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:15:09 -0500 (EST)



Ok i think its time Ive leave this topic alone. You all win.

On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Bob Davis wrote:

> The Blues started at the precise moment that the slave ships left the coast
> of Africa!
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: BAO <tunde@arches.uga.edu>
> To: Leslie Shill <l_shill@hotmail.com>
> Cc: <nnine@yahoo.com>; <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:25 PM
> Subject: Re: African info?
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> > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Leslie Shill wrote:
> >
> > > I hear what you are saying and on one level it does seem that today's
> > > performing African musicians are seemingly not very influential in terms
> of
> > > contemporary music but that some how misses the point. The Blues came
> out of
> > > Africa, North-west Africa to be precise and without the blues, so much
> of
> >
> > how did blues come out of africa? Im interested in hearing.
> >
> > On another note
> > I think a distinction we need to make is if people think that there is a
> > difference between impact of africans and impact of african americans. i
> > think at least within this century there is definitly a difference.
> >
> > N.B. I am Nigerian so dont pull wool over my face.
> >
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