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What writers and publishers must learn from the Deadly Woman Blues fiasco

  • Written by Aaron Corn, Professor of Music · Director, Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music (CASM) · Director, National Centre for Aboriginal Language and Music Studies (NCALMS), University of Adelaide
Deadly Woman Blues by Clinton Walker was pulled from circulation after various factual errors were revealed. NewSouth Publishing

Seldom does a book about music attract the high controversy surrounding Clinton Walker’s Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women & Australian Music. On grounds of multiple inaccuracies and damaging reputational...

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