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Bhel, black, blue: some thoughts on the inevitability and
the curative power of the blues
Essay by Erwin Bosman, © www.
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In 2010, Peter Muir published his book...
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Bhel, black, blue: some thoughts on the inevitability and
the curative power of the blues
Essay by Erwin Bosman, © www.
myblues.
eu, 2012
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In 2010, Peter Muir published his book
“Long Lost Blues”, which David Evans
qualified as “One of the most important
and original books on blues to be
published in the past decade” (The
Journal of Southern History).
Muir is,
next to a scholar, also an internationally
acclaimed pianist, composer, conductor,
and, moreover, the cofounder and
codirector of the Institute for Music and
Health in Verbank, New York, a
nationally recognized center pioneering
the use of music for well-being.
He
strongly beliefs in the fundamental
beneficial power of music for health and
wellbeing.
It is thus no surprise that one of the
chapters of his book elaborates the theory
that the blues can cure the blues.
Observing furthermore that the words
‘blue’ and ‘black’ derive
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