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Palm-wine music and the Kru seafarers

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Kru seamen of Liberia and Sierra Leone worked aboard European vessels, acquired guitars, and from the First World War onward spread a two-finger picking technique — reported to derive from Akan seperewa playing — along the West African coast through Krutown settlements, giving rise to dockside palm-wine music and thence to guitar-band highlife. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary from music-history sites rather than from ethnomusicological literature; none was opened, and the seperewa derivation rests on oral tradition reported at second hand.

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