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Closing the Racial Gap in Music

NPR
Published September 12, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

The series Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues comes to an end with the exploration of the interaction between blacks and whites in early country music and brings us to present day Memphis.

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