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All of the following arguments are made in this passage EXCEPT
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- 00:05
Okay Ap yngling people got a new passage for you
- 00:08
This one's about the history of blues music That'll be
- 00:11
kind of cool So note that the first question we're
- 00:14
going to skim right down to it asked all of
- 00:16
the following arguments are made in this passage except well
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- 00:24
we usually like to do a quick skim here and
- 00:26
bluesman from a melting pot It's where they came from
- 00:29
came to its own an important part of the country's
- 00:32
relatively new national popular culture in the twenties But say
- 00:35
the blues was just skeletal Outline Describing human being is
- 00:38
only dna on that and then forward to hear classical
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music and rainy Tell little white folks here little kind
- 00:44
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
- 00:48
being with race okay in terms of chronology male scholars
- 00:51
shot there his reason sixteen nineteen interesting and then skipped
- 00:54
down this barrel Clearly africans taken to america slaves brought
- 00:57
something other music with them All right so let's think
- 00:59
about this Every other answer option in this passage here
- 01:03
is explicitly stated in the passage somewhere and is the
- 01:06
theme of at least one paragraph pulled up You may
- 01:09
be saying i read this thing the author says More
- 01:12
than a few authorities on the genre contend that no
- 01:15
matter how well they can play it white folks simply
- 01:18
can't sing the blues Well that's true but the author
- 01:20
never actually argues that point In fact she specifically refuses
- 01:24
tto argue for or against it saying that it will
- 01:27
be a sidestep tio issue for now Meanwhile the authors
- 01:30
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
- 01:37
rid of b and became mainstream in the twentieth century
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Get rid of sea while the author does state that
- 01:41
rock and roll developed from the blue So get rid
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of d Many other genres developed from it as well
- 01:46
such as hip hop in country So the answer here
- 01:49
it's a those outside the african american experience cannot truly
- 01:53
sing the blues least according to this author And don't 00:01:56.404 --> [endTime] tell elvis oh
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