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Miles White spent his early musical
years travelling the "chitlin' circuit" as a
trumpet player in R&B funk bands in the South. He
later worked as a music journalist in Washington, D.C.,
ran a jazz band in Colorado Springs, Colorado., and
conducted ethnographic field research on marimba music in
northern coastal Ecuador in 1994. He received an M.A. in Music in 1996 from the University of Washington in Seattle, where he taught courses in American Popular Music, African-American Music, and World Music Cultures. |