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May 20, 2012

domain (as in area of activity or interest) n.: purlieu

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In fact, [Stanley] Dance regarded Swing as the purlieu of white musicians like Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. Mainstream was to encompass the work of black musicians including Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, Count Basie, Coleman Hawkins and Buck Clayton. (Steve Voce, obituary of Stanley Dance, Independent [London], 3/2/1999.)

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