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Thread #91497   Message #1744526
Posted By: GUEST,Jim
20-May-06 - 01:42 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Adopting Alien Traditions
Subject: RE: Folklore: Adopting Alien Traditions
Brendy

I know nothing about the working conditions of southern states plantation workers so will not take issue with you over the blues.

Historically speaking, economic (no money), social (scattered population) and theological (puritanical) conditions here suggest to me that music singing and dancing were unlikely to have been on the agenda for ordinary people in this part of the world during the 16th 17th and 18th centuries. That's all I'm saying.

Jim