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John Storm Roberts (February 24, 1936 – November 29, 2009〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Storm Roberts, World-Music Scholar, Dies at 73 )〕) 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. ==Life== John Anthony Storm Roberts was born in London, England. Roberts grew up listening to jazz, blues, calypso and flamenco records that his father brought back from business trips abroad. After graduating from Oxford University, Roberts wrote for the ''East African Standard'' in Kenya and developed an intimate knowledge of African music. In the late 1960s, he produced programs about African music for the BBC World Service. Roberts moved to the United States in 1970, where he was an editor for ''Africa Report''. In 1972, Roberts traveled to the Caribbean Islands to make field recordings of traditional music, which were released as ''Caribbean Island Music: Songs and Dances of Haiti, The Dominican Republic and Jamaica'' on Nonesuch Records as part of their Explorer Series. In 1972, he published ''Black Music of Two Worlds'', which explored the impact that both African and European cultures had on music of the Americas. In his next book, ''The Latin Tinge'' (1979), Roberts wrote "virtually all of the major popular forms — Tin Pan Alley, stage and film music, jazz, rhythm-and-blues, country music, rock — have been affected throughout their development by the idioms of Brazil, Cuba, or Mexico."〔Roberts, John Storm ''The Latin Tinge: The Impact of Latin American Music on the United States.'' Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512101-5. p. vii.〕 In 1982, Roberts and his wife, Anne Needham, founded Original Music, a mail order company that distributed world music books and records written and produced by Roberts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Storm Roberts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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