Zondra Hughes, in her EBONY article Are Whites Stealing Rhythm and Blues? ... In fact, Jerry Wexler said in an interview: "...it probably should have been rhythm and gospel because rhythm and blues is based far more on gospel changes than on blues changes" (Fox 126). ... Hence throughout the 1940's Rhythm and Blues remained "Race Music". ... The new name: Rhythm and Blues. ... "In the mid-1950's, rhythm and blues had been superseded by rock "n" roll. ...

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These songs " gave rhythm to regular labor [or] just [used] to past time." ... As a result, African Americans began to interpret and play classical music with "ragged or syncopated rhythms" (Shipton 33); with this, "Ragtime," was born. ...

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Music is displayed as an essential commodity to the text; through the omnipresent narrator's rhythm that provides continuity to the mellifluous rhetoric, but also through the characters" own tribulations. ... The streams of consciousness almost seem beyond the prose style of the novel, rather they present to us a poetic state that provide the rhythm and conscious of music, rather than literature. ... Toni Morrison, as in a jazz band, provides the "double bass" of the novel through the omnipresent narrator, keeping a continuous rhythm and providing effective continuity throughout the nov...

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Right there lurking within the framework of tunes like Pickin the Cabbage and Night In Tunisia was the apposition between a four-four swing beat and a Latin or African rhythm. ... The primary rhythm used in this tune is the African or Cuban habanera, a three beat syncopated rhythm that is often confused with the four beat Latin Tango, but there are other patterns throughout this tune that are indicative of the fusion of Spanish and French influences found in the New Orleans of Morton's youth. ... He and Juan eventually would collaborate on the classic tune Caravan, which carries a strong ...

• Word Count: 3210
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• Grade Level: High School