EOL 2: Hip Hop (White)

Biography

White photo 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.

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