How has blues music moved beyond its original African-American cultural context?
What will be an ideal response?
• Rock and roll began in the 1950s as white covers of black rhythm and blues.
• Since the 1960s blues music has moved outside of its original African-American community into mainstream popular music.
• Today, blues has found international audiences and artists—for example, Eric Clapton (England); blues is also heard in Czechoslovakia, Tanzania, and Japan. "Nowadays blues is regarded as a universal phenomenon, accessible to all."
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The principal American promoter of photography as art was __________
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The New Orleans Rhythm Kings (or NORK) was
a. a black jazz band that performed in New Orleans in the 1920s b. a white jazz band that performed in New Orleans in the 1930s c. a white jazz band that performed in Chicago in the 1920s d. an interracially mixed band that toured the country in the 1930s