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All of the following arguments are made in this passage EXCEPT


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Okay Ap yngling people got a new passage for you

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This one's about the history of blues music That'll be

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kind of cool So note that the first question we're

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going to skim right down to it asked all of

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the following arguments are made in this passage except well

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we usually like to do a quick skim here and

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bluesman from a melting pot It's where they came from

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came to its own an important part of the country's

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relatively new national popular culture in the twenties But say

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the blues was just skeletal Outline Describing human being is

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only dna on that and then forward to hear classical

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music and rainy Tell little white folks here little kind

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of come out but they don't know how to get

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there All right Any discussion of history The blues realized

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being with race okay in terms of chronology male scholars

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shot there his reason sixteen nineteen interesting and then skipped

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down this barrel Clearly africans taken to america slaves brought

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something other music with them All right so let's think

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about this Every other answer option in this passage here

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is explicitly stated in the passage somewhere and is the

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theme of at least one paragraph pulled up You may

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be saying i read this thing the author says More

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than a few authorities on the genre contend that no

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matter how well they can play it white folks simply

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can't sing the blues Well that's true but the author

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never actually argues that point In fact she specifically refuses

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tto argue for or against it saying that it will

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be a sidestep tio issue for now Meanwhile the authors

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specifically states that the blues are an african american creation

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Get rid of'em from the influx of african slaves get

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rid of b and became mainstream in the twentieth century

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Get rid of sea while the author does state that

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rock and roll developed from the blue So get rid

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of d Many other genres developed from it as well

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such as hip hop in country So the answer here

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it's a those outside the african american experience cannot truly

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sing the blues least according to this author And don't 00:01:56.404 --> [endTime] tell elvis oh

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