... he, as a tobacco farmer and scientist benefited from greatly. These benefits to tobacco farming were especially important in as much as they were crucial in supplying the funding that built Duke University, who instructs some of the most renowned Doctors today, and socially we as a country have accepted the use of tobacco products that helped boost the economy and as a nation ... ...

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... culture, but of African culture as a whole. Its chronological and thematic episodes provided a history of the jazz emphasizing innovative composers and musicians and American history. Swing musicians Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington are the central figures. Several episodes discussed the later contributions of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to bebop, and of Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, and John Coltrane to free ... ...

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... . And if jazz has undeniably accrued status and respect over the years, it has also consistently provoked controversy. The term itself has often carried negative associations, which is partly why Duke Ellington and other musicians spurned the label, and why Max Roach once told an interviewer, "I resent the word unequivocally" (Taylor, H1977, p.110). Several factors account for the volatility of jazz ... ...

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... creating and refining jazz, a mixture of ragtime, blues and African folk songs. The Jazz Age dawned in 1919 with the instrumentation of bandleader Louis Armstrong and the orchestration of composer Duke Ellington. For black entertainers the 1920s were boom times, and this made the jazz that the New Orleans blacks were bringing north more acceptable. World War I, which ran from 1914 ... ...

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