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Chapter 4 Negotiating Blackness In Western Art Music

ORIGINAL TEXT

Even though few recognized it, such artists as Ellington and Louis Armstrong were the stewards of our vaunted American optimism and guardians against the creeping irrationality which ever plagues our form of society.(Wilson,O.pg66)

Paraphrasing Text

Louis Armstrong and Ellington served as positive reinforcements for the black community. They were the ambassadors to the unreasonable ideologies projected onto blacks from the white society in the musical and racial society.