Ethnomusicology

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http://www.npr.org/2013/09/26/224524643/music-doc-packs-muscle-plus-a-whole-lotta-soul

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was a good Muddy Waters interview in the early '80's in Musician. He
> went into detail on his use of microtones to give color, nuance, and
> emotion to both his slide and vocal work. Pretty sophisticated and
> self-aware explanation of his technique from someone labelled a "down home"
> musician.
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> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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>> Am 05.11.2015 um 15:03 schrieb Keith Davis:
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>> It would be interesting if the effects of degrees of "out-of-tuneness"
>>> could be measured. Has this been done? How blue is the blues, and who is
>>> the bluesiest? Good blues or bad blues? Or just dues?
>>>
>>
>> "The blues is a cross between the greens and the yellows."
>>
>> Lightning Hopkins (as quoted by Townes van Zandt)
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