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#* '''1999''', Reid MITCHELL, ''ALL ON A MARDI GRAS DAY'', Harvard University Press (ISBN 9780674016231), page 153

#*: Around the turn of the century, however, "'''routiner'''" or "head" music and "ear" musicians began to appear at parades. This was music more exclusively rooted in black traditions, played by men who often could not read music but who instead improvised.