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greg stephens Howard Goodall's Story of Music (76* d) RE: Howard Goodall's Story of Music 28 Jan 13


What particularly annoyed me(or rather incensed me)was Howard G's article in the Guardian trailing the series.In it he namechecked a lot of classical usual suspects(Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, Bach, I think) plus a couple of poppies(Adele and someone). The article also referred at the end to the fact that Euro composers often pillaged the works of black artists for material, oftoen unacknowledged.The article was copiously illustrated by photos of the mentioned people. All the white Europeans, classical and pop, were correctly identified in captions.The people in the photo used to illustrate the"black music pillaged by Euro musicians" story were Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers. They were not identified by name(just referred to as jazz).Need I add further comment?


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