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Radio 4,1 min
Series Series 1
The missing link between traditional music and jazz - Rainer Lotz explores his archive collection of black music in Europe
Black Music in Europe: A Hidden HistoryAvailable for over a year
Music collector and historian Rainer Lotz examines the importance of early African-American recordings as a precursor to the explosion of jazz and blues in popular western culture, as Clarke Peters discovers.
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