John Storm Roberts obituary

Ethnomusicologist and an early champion of world musicThe ethnomusicologist John Storm Roberts, who has died aged 73, was active in identifying, preserving and promoting world music, years before the term became common currency. During the 1970s and 80s, a period when any reference to black music generally signified African-American jazz or blues, he revealed, through books and compilation albums, the parallel traditions of African-derived music in south, central and Latin America and contempor...

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