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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004
From: Michael Urban <urban47@ucsc.edu>
Subject: New book: RUSSIA GETS THE BLUES: MUSIC: CULTURE AND COMMUNITY IN UNSETTLED TIMES

Dear David,

I'd like to mention to your readers a new book of mine. It's called RUSSIA GETS THE BLUES: MUSIC: CULTURE AND COMMUNITY IN UNSETTLED TIMES and has just been published by Cornell University Press in hardback and paper in their series, Society and Culture After Socialism. The book focuses on Russia's blues community - musicians, promoters and fans - examining how its members have discovered in this music a medium for making sense of, and reordering, their lives in the postcommunist epoch. It's also got some pretty good stories in it.

Thanks and best regards,
Mike Urban