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Thread #76372   Message #1353402
Posted By: GUEST,greg stephens
10-Dec-04 - 04:12 PM
Thread Name: Black Britons & Folk Music?
Subject: RE: Black Britons & Folk Music?
I seriously think the black contribution to English fiddle music in the period 1650-1850 has been underrated. I really hope that in these more enlightened times(and with a bit more money available for research) that some serious research is done on the next few years, on diaries, playbills and other adverts, and we get a bit more of qa picture of what was actually going on in London and Bristol and Liverpool in that time. I think the results might be very interesting. English music changed a lot in that period, and I have a hunch that black people may have had quite a hand in it.