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syncopated-bowing · wells2003-fiddling-black-white
- Citation
- wells2003-fiddling-black-white
- Claim ID
- syncopated-bowing
- Assertion
- Dance music played primarily on the fiddle was the earliest meeting ground of Black and white musicians in America, from at least the late seventeenth century; drawing on Alan Jabbour, Wells argues that the syncopated bowing patterns of Upper South fiddling were likely an African American contribution.
- Quote
Syncopated bowing patterns, which were likely borrowed from black fiddling, strongly influenced the development of a particularly southern version of fiddling and later other forms of popular music.
- Quote language
- en
- Locator
- page: 135, 142, 145
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