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The First Jazz Recording Was Made by a Group of White Guys?
The early-20th century was a period of entrenched white racism, but in New Orleans, where there was little racial segregation, blacks and whites lived cheek-by-jowl, everyone’s windows were open and sounds floated from house to house, which meant music was easily shared. In this light, it is not entirely surprising that the first jazz recording was made by white musicians.
Record companies routinely ignored African-American musicians—with only a few exceptions, such as singer Bert Williams and bandleader James Reese Europe . It wasn’t until the 1920s that record labels discovered a growing market, largely among African-Americans, for black music.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smith...uys-180962246/
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