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includeMeOut's avatar

Two generations removed from chattel slavery, Black USA citizens created a musical form, often called Jazz, which ended up as a pole of attraction worldwide. It was and is a stellar hybrid of African derived rhythmic momentum and European harmonic conceptions. It is at its best a profoundly democratic undertaking, a dialectical combination of individual voices within a group.

It has been seemingly crushed through neglect but always emerges Phoenix like triumphant.

There are lessons to be learned.

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RedElva's avatar

I think this video sums it up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242eDB84zY

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Charlotte Ruse's avatar

What is America?

Fascist capitalism run by psychos with a depraved lumpenproletariat mentality.

🤑😵‍💫🤑

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Anthony James Hall's avatar

America is a hemisphere. The United States is a country. In my view all inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere are Americans including those in Canada, Chile, etc. True to form, the USA appropriated the concept of "America" as their own.

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