Rhythm and blues was popular among the African-American population of America, but until the early 1950's, white people had little interest in rhythm and blues. ... In 1951, Allen Freed, a disc jockey in Cleveland, Ohio teamed up with Leo Mintz, one of Cleveland's largest record store owners, to introduce traditionally African American music to the white population. ... These very dances are where rock and roll truly came alive in the young adults" lives. While teens were on their own social territory, the high energy, hormonal rock music blasted through the speakers as they danced...

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Jazz music was a blend of West African and Latin rhythms, African American spirituals and blues, and European harmonies. ... As this happened, white musicians began incorporating jazz into their music, while big bands, both black and white popularized it for dancing. Quite possibly the greatest cultural changes came about with the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement in Harlem, New York, of African American actors, artists, writers, and musicians. ... The Harlem Renaissance was above all a literary movement, when famous novelists such as Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes produced work ...

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My impression on the basis of the music has always been portrayed with the African-American race. ... All of the blues artists were of the African-American decent. I observed that the majority of the audience was also African-American. ... His evolution of manufacturing piano music into dance music was a very complex transition from the blend of relaxation to the rhythmic dance style. ... Basing the music on movements by the body and the movement of the instruments created an abstract art for dancing to the music. ...

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Zydeco is dance music that was started by Creole French speaking people of African descent that lived in Southwest Louisiana. ... It consist of lots of dancing, wild cooking, and live zydeco music performances. ... The music sends a message that has a two-step dance whether it's fast or slow. ... My family would dance to this music as if it was their last dance. ... Every generation has a zydeco artist whose music that they grew up to listening and dancing. ...

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Jazz music originated in New Orleans in the nineteenth century.2 Slaves around the time all met in an area called the "Congo Square," known today as Louis Armstrong Park where they danced publically simply to enjoy themselves. After research on the documents in the history of African-American music, sketches have shown these people playing percussion instruments with string as well.3 There are many unanswered questions to how it started there, but architects are quite certain about where it has originated from. ... Jazz music in Japan started off in the 1910s and there was a huge gr...

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African spirituals were carried to America among the hearts of oppressed slaves in the 1600s. ... African Spirituals gave root to other genres of music: blues, folk, and in 1950s, rock n roll. ... Hip-Hop is synonymous with the culture of appreciation of Rap, as well as one that produces different danceable beats. ...

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