The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

They brought sophisticated musical and instrument-building skills across the Atlantic and, in some cases, actual instruments—one banjo-like device from a slave ship still survives in a Dutch museum.

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While smaller in scope (at launch, only Stratocasters, Telecasters, P-basses, and jazz basses are available) the Player II Modified instruments dive head-first into the wonderful and wild world of ...