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The connection between jazz music and race has been discussed ever since it first appeared around 100 years ago. Over the last forty
years or so, many jazz artists have expressed their beliefs that jazz is strictly an African American style of music. One of their main arguments for the "blackness" of jazz is that the most influential and significant foundations of jazz were rooted in African American culture. Some of these foundations include blues, ragtime, and religious music. The blues evolved in the southern United States in the communities of African American laborers. The blues appeared sometime between 1870 and 1970 corresponding with the emancipation of the slaves, thus the belief that the development of the blues was associated with the newly acquired freedom of the slaves. In the 1920s, the blues became a major element of African American popular music, but at the same was being listened to by white audiences for the first time. Those responsible for spread of blues......

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