>I ask any and all of you - does anyone know of publications which relate >the harp to an economic history (or blues to economic history)??
You will have to do the research, but in during Japans occupation after WWII, one of the products they made was harmonicas. I just bought a 4 hole tiny harp called a "PEEWEE" at SPAH. It says on it."Made in occupied Japan".
See what you can find out. Maybe we were trying to poetically pit Germany against Japan?
HJ
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