When new books are reviewed, they are normally in circulation and available for purchase. This is not true, however, of Deadly Woman Blues: Black Women & Australian Music by Clinton Walker, which was only recently released by NewSouth Publishing, the publishing arm of UNSW Press, in February 2018, yet withdrawn from sale within weeks due to numerous complaints from the very musicians whose work and achievements it sought to celebrate. Before reaching most bookstore shelves, Deadly Woman Blues was resoundingly condemned by several of the most prominent of those musicians via their social media posts, letters to the editor, and news commentaries. Criticized for the lack of consultation and consent sought by Walker from many of the living musicians it discussed, as well as for the many factual errors and historical distortions found within its pages, NewSouth Publishing (2018) announced that Deadly Woman Blues would be pulped on 5 March 2018 with all corrections to be posted on its website. Walker (2018b) issued his own apology, citing the book’s ‘errors of fact’, that same day. Walker had conceived of Deadly Woman Blues as a generally-chronological biographical encyclopaedia aimed at recognizing the often-overlooked histories and achievements of black women in Australian music. Although not unproblematic, the book did not stop with entries on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians, but also extended to expatriate musicians of the African diaspora and Indigenous communities of other countries. Even so, Deadly Woman Blues was promoted as a sequel to Walker’s earlier book, the highly-successful Buried Country: The Story of Aboriginal Country Music (Walker 2000a), which had spawned a tie-in documentary film (Nehl 2000), two double-CD albums (Walker 2000b, 2015b) and a stage show (Walker 2016). Deadly Woman Blues would not, however, be received as the triumph that Buried Country had been.

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一本纸浆书的验尸：弄清致命女性布鲁斯的错失良机

新书经过审核后，通常会在流通中出售。然而，克林顿·沃克（Clinton Walker）的《致命的女人布鲁斯：黑人女性与澳大利亚音乐》并非如此，该专辑最近才由新南威尔士大学出版社的出版机构NewSouth Publishing于2018年2月发行，但由于发行人众多，数周之内就退出了销售来自音乐家的抱怨，他们试图赞扬他们的工作和成就。在到达大多数书店的书架之前，“致命的女人布鲁斯”通过社交媒体帖子，致编辑的信以及新闻评论受到了其中几位最杰出音乐家的强烈谴责。批评沃克缺少讨论中的许多在世音乐家的咨询和同意，以及其页面中发现的许多事实错误和历史失真，NewSouth Publishing（2018）宣布，《致命的女人布鲁斯》将于2018年3月5日制浆，所有更正将发布在其网站上。沃克（2018b）当天发表了自己的道歉，引用了该书的``事实错误''。沃克将《致命的女人布鲁斯》构想为按时间顺序排列的传记百科全书，旨在认识澳大利亚音乐中黑人女性经常被忽视的历史和成就。尽管没有问题，但本书并没有以原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民音乐家的参赛作品而告终，还扩展到了非洲侨民和其他国家的原住民音乐家。即便如此，《致命女人布鲁斯》还是沃克（Walker）早期著作的续集，高度成功的《埋葬的乡村：原住民乡村音乐的故事》（Walker 2000a），其中产生了一部配套纪录片（Nehl 2000），两张双CD专辑（Walker 2000b，2015b）和一个舞台表演（Walker 2016） ）。但是，不会像《埋葬的国家》那样获得致命的女人布鲁斯的胜利。