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John Storm Roberts (February 24, 1936 – November 29, 2009 [1]) was a British-born, U.S.-based ethnomusicologist, writer and record producer. He is best known as the co-founder of Original Music, a mail-order company that distributed world music books and records.
Dec 10, 2009 · John Storm Roberts, an English-born writer, record producer and independent scholar whose work explored the rich, varied and often surprising ways in which the popular music of Africa and...
Before anyone knew about 'world music,' John Storm Roberts was knee-deep in it. Around the time that Peter Gabriel, Sting, and David Byrne were born and Paul Simon barely hit his teens, Roberts was listening, cataloging, documenting and promoting music from countries that most Westerners never knew about.
Feb 3, 2010 · The writer John Storm Roberts opened up new vistas of music, notably with his books Black Music of Two Worlds (1972) and The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United...
Dec 31, 1999 · For the first time, author John Storm Roberts tells the full story of the great Latin jazz musicians including Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, Astrid Gilberto, Chick Corea, and their lasting impact on American jazz.
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Jan 5, 2010 · John Storm Roberts, who has died aged 73, was a writer and record producer with a scholarly insight into how the popular music of Africa and Latin America influenced that of Europe and...
John Storm Roberts Promotes Original Music from Around the World His interest, particularly in African music, developed while he worked for a news agency in Kenya. Roberts was surprised to discover American influences in some of the songs he recorded, which led him to reject any notion of a pure, national music.
