Word: turned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...juniors on the regular singles ladder, Kawakami figured to have an outside chance at the captaincy, but his lack of varsity experience seemed to turn the odds against...
...legendary Buddy Bolden jazz band was living and working as a day laborer in the rice fields of rural Louisiana. They drove all the way across the country hoping just to see him, to speak to him, to learn what New Orleans jazz had been before the turn of the century, before the first World War, before the "dixieland" musicians and the arrangers of the swing era had diluted and transformed its raw power and beauty almost beyond recognition...
...encountered a surviving Neanderthal. These men were playing the music which had developed out of 200 years of enslavement, out of a thousand years of African culture, out of Civil War marches, creole melodies, ragtime, blues. It had all meshed on the back streets of New Orleans around the turn of the century, and blossomed in the grand houses of Storyville, the city's legendary red-light district...
...when Bunk's, band was recorded in 1942, people realized that there was another half to the story. Many musicians stayed in the city after 1917, and continued playing the same pure style of jazz that had developed around the turn of the century. When Storyville closed up, the music went on as it always had--on the streets of the black sections, in the back yards, in the little churches, at parades, picnics, dances, funerals. The culture which produced these men and their music didn't change very much in those 50 years or so, and the music...
...think it says something about America that it has by-and-large ignored its greatest cultural endowments, or has discovered them second-and from Europe. It took the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to turn Americans on to the rhythm and blues that blacks had been making right under their noses. It took an Eric Clapton and a John Mayall to turn Americans on to B.B. King...