... , as well as listings of musical events in the city. Its readership included subscribers across the United States and in several foreign countries. Information scarce - In the young discipline of popular music studies, material on musicmaking in local communities is scarce. As Sara Cohen has said, 'What is particularly lacking in the literature is ethnographic data and microsociological detail.' That ... 's particularly true of New Orleans, where even though there's massive amounts of books that mention the city and its music, they"re not scholarly or useful by any means. So outside acade...

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