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  2. Jazz - Wikipedia

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    The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson is one example of how Jewish Americans were able to bring jazz, music that African Americans developed, into popular culture. [33] Benny Goodman was a vital Jewish American to the progression of Jazz. Goodman was the leader of a racially integrated band named King of Swing.

  3. Blues - Wikipedia

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    Blues musical styles, forms (12-bar blues), melodies, and the blues scale have influenced many other genres of music, such as rock and roll, jazz, and popular music. [127] Prominent jazz, folk or rock performers, such as Louis Armstrong , Duke Ellington , Miles Davis , and Bob Dylan have performed significant blues recordings.

  4. Robert Johnson - Wikipedia

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    The Blues and the Blues singer has really special powers over women, especially. It is said that the Blues singer could possess women and have any woman they wanted. And so when Robert Johnson came back, having left his community as an apparently mediocre musician, with a clear genius in his guitar style and lyrics, people said he must have ...

  5. Bessie Smith - Wikipedia

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    Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age.Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930s.

  6. Jazz Age - Wikipedia

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    Jazz is a music genre that originated in the Black-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, [5] [6] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

  7. Louis Armstrong - Wikipedia

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    Armstrong was a gifted composer who wrote more than 50 songs, some of which have become jazz standards (e.g., "Gully Low Blues", "Potato Head Blues", and "Swing That Music"). Colleagues and followers With Jack Teagarden (left) and Barney Bigard (right), Armstrong plays the trumpet in Helsinki, Finland , October 1949

  8. Origins of rock and roll - Wikipedia

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    New styles of music emerged among black Americans in the early 20th century in the form of blues, ragtime, jazz, and gospel music. [24] [59] According to the writer Robert Palmer: "Rock 'n' roll was an inevitable outgrowth of the social and musical interactions between blacks and whites in the South and Southwest. Its roots are a complex tangle.

  9. List of blues musicians - Wikipedia

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    Blues musicians are musical artists who are primarily recognized as writing, performing, and recording blues music. [1] They come from different eras and include styles such as ragtime - vaudeville , Delta and country blues , and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast . [ 2 ]