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Blues
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To be sure, rock n' roll is usually a flagrant commercialization of rhythm & blues, but the music in many cases depends on materials that are so alien to the general middle-class, middle-brow American culture as to remain interesting. Many of the same kinds of cheap American dilutions that had disfigured popular swing have tended to disfigure the new music, but the source, the exciting and "vulgar" urban blues of the forties, is still sufficiently removed from the mainstream to be vital. For thi
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― Blues People: Negro Music in White America
― Blues People: Negro Music in White America
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T was in a blue mood , his open reflections on the isloation of his life floating like Jazz notes under a "pink moon
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― Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
― Slide, a Modern Satire on the Excess of Greed
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