... bodies. This body of music was of great importance in the development of jazz. First, almost certainly, the field secular music was the forerunner of the blues, which appeared in the 1890s and was such an important aspect of jazz and the gutbucket feature of black dance music. The techniques from this music, the slurring and bending of notes, the wild falsetto cries and the like, became common features of jazz as both ... role not only in the Harlem Renaissance but also on the lives of African Americans. Blacks in the 1920's wore popular for their singing, dancing and acting skills, mos...

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