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From: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
List Editor: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Re: What makes Southern music "Southern"?
Author's Subject: Re: What makes Southern music "Southern"?
Date Written: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:42:23 -0000
Date Posted: Tue, 30 Jan 2006 18:42:23 -0500

I am an interested amateur in this field, no more, so
this may be wide of the mark, but one of things that
worries me a little about defining an art form, in
this case Southern music, in this way, is what it must
exclude by definition. Is the implication of Dr Toth's
definition that Southern music can't be played by
non-Southerners? Reminds me a bit of Wynton Marsalis
implying (very strongly) that jazz is an
African-American art form and jazz played by others
is somehow non-authentic as a result.

Jeffrey Grey
H&SS, ADFA

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