[net.music] Where jazz originated

trb@drutx.UUCP (BuckleyTR) (06/06/84)

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Jazz can be traced back to the mid-1800s where documentation of
chantings by slaves in the cotton fields was written.  The type
of chord structures used in this early "jazz" were never produced
elsewhere in the world before that time.

After the slaves were freed, jazz came to the cities, where not
only slaves but whites as well developed the music.  However, with
rare exceptions, all innovators in jazz were black.

Tom Buckley
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