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Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

b. Rosetta Nubin, 20 March 1915, Cotton Plant, Arkansas, USA, d. 9 October 1973, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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