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Hawkwind - Watching the Grass Grow (Live)

In January 1965, the University of Michigan Jazz Band went on tour traveling to a multitude of Latin American countries and served as a case study to see the far reaching effects of cultural diplomacy... Both archival and oral history evidence indicate that the Michigan jazz band's tour succeeded in building vital imagined connections across international borders. The jazz band tour was a force that sew the essential role of musicianship in fostering new transnational sensibilities.

There is a concentration of African American population in the Caribbean so seeing the Rhythm and the Blues, Caribbean Awards source we can see the outreach that the Blues has had. In The Music Education in the Caribbean and Latin America, A Comprehensive Guide, it goes into ways the music education system in Latin American and Caribbean islands incorporate the importance of the Blues into their school system.

A new method of Caribbean literary analysis draws from the blues tradition in African American literature, similar to the way that reggae music borrows from the blues, and in so doing, highlighted the artistic and cultural influences... This further explores the theory through history as the Blues and reggae in contemporary fiction manifest the oral tradition in African storytelling.


Hawkwind - Watching the Grass Grow (Live)
  • Recorded on: November 16, 1969
  • Released in: 1984
  • Recorded in: Stonehenge Free Festival, UK

"Hawkwing had changed by their June 1984 appearance with guitarists Dave Brock, Huw Lloyd Langton and saxophonist Nik Turner remaining, Harvey Bainbridge switching from bass to keyboards, and joined by bassist Alan Davey and drummer Clive Deamer."

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