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From the Birthplace of America’s Music: Mississippi’s Contribution to the Birth of Hip-Hop
By: Tyrone Armstrong Mississippi’s Musical Legacy Mississippi is widely recognized as the “Birthplace of America’s Music,” a state that helped father the blues from deep in the Mississippi Delta. The blues, emerging from the realities of work, worship, and struggle, produced generations of musicians whose sound shaped nearly every major American genre that followed. Many…
