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America, formerly considered by Europeans a ‘vast wasteland’ of culture, now became the ‘last refuge’ for sanity. Many European composers came to our shores only to find America wasn’t ready for a European musical culture. We had a music of our own, based on popular culture and the ‘Harlem Renaissance’! We’ll cover the rise of this new ‘Americanism’ in music.

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