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By using the specific imagery in lines 27–29 ("But to say…processes"), the author chiefly suggests that blues music


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Okay Ap england people were singing the blues next question

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by using the specific imagery in lines twenty seven through

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twenty nine The author chiefly suggests that blues music what

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Let's cruise down here is line twenty seven But to

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say that the blues was or is just that skeletal

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outline is like describing a human being using only descriptions

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of dna and genetic processes when reading a simile or

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metaphor pay close attention or what's being compared That's skeletal

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outline right there refers to the paragraphs above which tell

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a little bit about the history of the blues But

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that's only a tiny part of this passage is story

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The story it actually wants to tell is one of

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blues growing out of african americans cultural experience and out

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of decades of racism and we'll change the paragraphs above

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explained about the body of jazz But while the ensuing

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paragraphs talk about the soul yes this is deep The

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skeleton outline isn't actually referring to the anatomy of african

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americans so get rid of the for the building blocks

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to their genetic code Get rid of a well it's

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true that the blues did create a building block for

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multiple genres Get rid of b and can hit right

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in the soul of african americans right Get rid of

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declines twenty seven through twenty nine are not discussing those

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facts specifically So the answer here it see it consists

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of far more than a brief historical period right It's 00:01:25.708 --> [endTime] something connected to the soul baby

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