The popularity of performers and their associated recordings in rural black communities throughout the South stemmed from the genre's ability to explore the shared concerns of African Americans through the details of personal experience, often presented in striking poetic images.

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The popularity of funk performers and their associated recordings in rural black communities throughout the South stemmed from the genre's ability to explore the shared concerns of African Americans through the details of personal experience, often presented in striking poetic images.

a, both were musicians during the jazz age

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