Black people since the end of the Civil War were searching for an aesthetic. They're searching for an aesthetic that will free them of minstrelsy, freedom of the burden of minstrelsy, freedom of the degradation of minstrelsy. What emerges from that is a form called the "Blues" and it's a very useful form. It's elastic. You can do a lot with it because it's simple.
-- Gerald Early, Jazz
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