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Did We Do That Or Did It Just Happen? The19th Century saw jazz develop from folk blues music in the Deep South, to an internationally recognized art form. This process of development incorporated increasingly complex techniques and expressed a wider and more profound range of human emotion and experience. Jazz, although uniquely American in origin, is an art form that combines many different cultural influences and musical traditions such as Classic Blues and Country Blues. Excellent jazz players, such as: Duke Ellington, Jimmy Lunceford, Cab Calloway, Artie Shaw, and Count Basie all came from different parts of the United States with differing backgrounds. However, many of the innovators and leading voices, were black Americans, the descendants of slaves. This concurrence between the black population in the United States and jazz music has led to much political and sociological debate. The essential lines of the dispute put those who see jazz as...

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