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    Great point about the protest/work song roots of what came to be called blues. I hadn't thought of that as an influence that was made more explicit in later years. I associate songs like "Strange Fruit" with the influence of the Harlem Renaissance on later songwriters and poets, but of course those kinds of sentiments are much older than that.

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      It wasn't bad at all! But if it took some special skill to read it, it was a skill you probably have earned too, by reading lots of first-year student essays. Your comment was far easier to make sense of than some of those! As I recently wrote in the margins of a particularly garbled student paper: "I have no idea what this sentence means, but I know what you're trying to say."