Musicologist Discovers Roots of Gospel Music

"It makes sense that as we got our names from the slave masters, we carried the slave owners blood, their religion and their customs, that we should have adopted and adapted their music. There are more descendants of Highland Scots living in America than there are in the Highlands - and a great many of them are black.

"I have been to Africa many times in search of my cultural identity, but it was in the Highlands that I found the cultural roots of black America."

-- Professor Willie Ruff, Yale University

My Century

Following the example of elementalmuse and others I will now post a hundred things about myself. It is not a well-ordered list, and I have not edited anything out. I found it a most instructive exercise.
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