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... and somewhere in the middle lies the truth ... i think that this is probably pretty close to what really happened. amazing what can happen when great minds collaborate, eh?:) <bg> zach:) >Hi Zach: > >We are not musicologists either! But if you get a chance, check out >Davis'book. > >By the way you make a good point by saying that no one with certainty >can be sure that Jazz guys in New Orleans weren't exposed to country >folk playing their music. But it is safe to say that because of the >economics and history of blacks and Creole's in New Orleans, a kind of >African American music devloped that was different from the music that >grew out of the much poorer and rural areas of Mississippi or the >Piedmont region of the southeast (where there was another set of >historic/economic circumstances for African Americans). > >Best, >The Roctologists > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com