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Music genres like jazz and blues were developed from African American spirituals and work songs. Art forged from endurance.

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Spirituals, field hollers, and work chants shaped the call-and-response patterns and “blue notes” that became core to blues and later jazz. These traditions became commercialized and widely recorded in the early 1900s, influencing global popular music.

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