... My work in New Orleans pointed out the possibility for a broader definition of research that could include the contribution of people other than professional academics, especially the often overlooked resource of the specialist press. Researchers are often limited, by funding or pressures to submit a thesis, to a short period of research. Since my work was not done through a traditional academic route, and ... not constrained by the usual institutional structure associated with research projects, I had the opportunity to observe, intimately and at leisure, one of music's most influentia...

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