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Music Appreciation

brush

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8. Rap was a reaction by young people with musical instincts...

Reply to pnwest (Reply #2)

Mon Nov 4, 2019, 11:28 AM

Nov 2019

reacting to their school districts cutting music education programs with their creativity.

They improvised and use what they could to create a new genre—sample, riffing with spoken word, etc.

It's music all right.

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