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Article: Editor's introduction.(Editorial)
- Article from:
- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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That this issue of BMRJ addresses a single broad subject is the result of happy coincidence: the almost simultaneous receipt of submissions that collectively brought together a number of issues related to the African diaspora in the circum-Carribean. Usually, thematic issues are the result of articles commissioned by an expert in a particular subject area serving as a guest editor. In the present instance, timing was everything.
The diversity of the subjects addressed in the following articles nevertheless reminds us that scholars in black music regularly confront two challenges. First, solutions to particular problems require critical analysis of source ...