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  3. Considering how jazz is transcribed in Chinese, you may be misled into assuming that it is a cultural form belonging to those wh

Considering how jazz is transcribed in Chinese, you may be misled into assuming that it is a cultural form belonging to those wh

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问题     Considering how jazz is transcribed in Chinese, you may be misled into assuming that it is a cultural form belonging to those who have some elegant tastes. Nothing could be further from the truth. It (36)______ among black Americans at the end of the 19th century, at a time when they (37)______ the very bottom of the American social heap.
    So how has something that was created by a once despised (38)______ acquired a central place in today’s American culture? It’s a (39)______ that many people would like to solve.
    Perhaps the (40)______ of America is that you could never get two Americans to agree on just what that might be. After thinking about it for a while, we might (41)______, "Hmm,
seems like being American is a hit more (42)______ than we thought." Certainly things like (43)______, success, innovation and tolerance stand out. (44)____________.
    Some, like African-American writer Ralph Ellison, believes that jazz captures the intrinsic properties of America. (45)____________. They say jazz brought together elements from Africa and Europe, fusing them into a new culture, an expression unique to the Americas. Beyond that, though, jazz has a connection to the intrinsic properties of America in a much more fundamental way. (46)____________.

  
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