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Kirsten traces the important contributions made by Native Americans to rock music, particularly the guitar sounds. Starting out as black music - rhythm and blues - rock and roll went global in the 50s and 60s, eventually becoming "rock" and often now dominated by white artists. Kirsten looks at the racial politics of the genre.
Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Auckland's School of Social Sciences.
