Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History

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Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History

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80 minutes

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Oct 19, 2010

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The New Yorker music critic leads an audio tour of several hundred years of music history, from Renaissance lute songs to Led Zeppelin, showing how certain motifs of celebration and lament recur in many different contexts and cultures.

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Oct 19, 2010

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Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues: Bass Lines of Music History

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