‘[Blues records were not] banned – nothing was
banned exactly – simply not played. Encouraged to fall into desuetude, like the
word desuetude. Popular taste did what edict and proscription could never have
done, and just as, when it came to books, the people chose rags-to-riches
memoirs, cookbooks and romances, so, when it came to music, they chose
ballads.’
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