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Slaves brought with them to America a strong rhythmic tradition as far as drums were concerned. Though they were not allowed to own Musical Instruments, they carried their rhythmic influences into the genre of the "work song" which they developed to enable their hard physical work to progress through, on many occasions, complete physical exhaustion. Work song later became of the strands of music from which jazz grew.

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