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Negro music and American.
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Negro music in America.
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An exploration of it and its impact on American culture.
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Here is your host for the series Tony look at Bach generally speaking the blues
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are really a very personal experience both for the composer and for the artists who perform them.
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And they can also be as strongly emotional experience for the listener who identifies with them.
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One of the reasons a blues performers can improvise so in this way and beautifully is because they
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themselves become so emotionally involved and identified with the trials and tribulations from
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which the blues bring. For instance and it's interesting thought is that the
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terrible flood of 1893 that Big Bill Broonzy saying about last week would have probably
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been considered a visitation of the wrath of God by a spiritual singer but to a
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blues singer it would simply boil down to what can a poor boy do
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after a disheartening personal experience rings of blues out of some bored devil or his body. The
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folk usually take it over and then they're sung by many people and belong to everybody.
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The story of Betty and Dupree sung here by Brownie mid-game accompanied by Sonny Terry presents a
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fine example of this Bette and debris.
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Will bet she was.
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Praying.
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Praying.
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For law that we'd
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get to.
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Meet God Himself.
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He got it.
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For.
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You.
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Better. Yet.
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Wrong.
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Oh well we had better get in
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better than.
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Get a.
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Brain
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ready you had to know.
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How to Get Your byes. To.
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Recall that train.
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Car. Lot and all.
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Well.
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You know better.
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They cough.
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Well they.
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Do.
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But you said.
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Do you.
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Really.
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Know. Where long.
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But I.
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Live.
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Where they carried you Brianne the gold.
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They get. Their.
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Draw. Oh no.
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Better.
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Yet what do. You know
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better you can.
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Just give me.
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But.
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Because I was. Wrong.
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Well yes.
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Well you got to do.
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Here is an example of the impact of nigger music on our culture as one admiring white
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performers play for us in a Nigro style a very fine modern and more city
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styled Betty in debris.
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This is sung by Betty in the Doak.
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They feel that she's watching that guy.
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Right there.
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But the thing that three she.
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Got. Me and done a thing
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to piece a gazillion times get you steady
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thing the thing we
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bought and sold.
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Distilling love. Oh Lord. Lol that
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load of bull. He told
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us what to load Lol it's a
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goal to get that
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plane ride when you reach the St.. But
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it's still good.
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The police came and got him a right to be unlike.
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The Polish current mayor.
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You do
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bring in Paul Barry.
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I saw you
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see.
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Me.
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Mr. PENA used to meet his told
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me.
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You see you eat your thing
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you.
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Can say you eat you.
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Anything you really want me to eat a regular
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thing
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bandied about.
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Rishi Why is it.
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A.
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Big thing big g y a.
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Re.
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Being united stand me
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thing.
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Of.
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Living up to it sings it plays an old traditional blues take me back.
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Jake be back on Usenet in darkness. You
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bags you out me you Joe. What a
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year. That you have got your
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beer you sold your lot of
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that me me bet
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on meth you
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lied.
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She bet on Usenet.
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You are that you are.
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You.
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See me brag how be you. What
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is that.
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Songwriters sure there are a few words
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here Charlie.
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Or you mean you're you're you're.
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You're you're. Carry me
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crazy.
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Meet me here are our theories mean
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rather.
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I think you've embraced you with a reason.
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Next week we'll have different styles of Blues wealth country and urban and they'll range from the
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New Orleans area up through Kansas City Chicago.
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Negro music in America I would only look at Bach resided transcribed by the
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SEIU Radio Network. Got together the next week as we continue
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our exploration of the negro and American music.
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This program was distributed by national educational radio. This
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is national educational radio network.
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