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Research Article

The home of Afro-American music: Los Angeles and the creation of Hugh Masekela’s anticolonial sound

, Ph.D
Pages 105-120 | Received 25 May 2022, Accepted 17 Jan 2023, Published online: 29 Jan 2023

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