Almost all of the kinds of music America exports originated in black communities. This is a short walk through the artists who built the sound the rest of the world borrowed. American popular music, which in turn radiated outwards, is, to a remarkable degree, Black American music. Blues, jazz, gospel, R&B, rock and roll, soul, funk and hip hop, and much of country, is rooted in the creativity of Black people, often without audiences realizing where the sound is coming from. W.C. Handy The father of the blues, for being the one whom established a folk tradition in written form

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