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===Jazz and race=== For some African Americans, jazz has drawn attention to African-American contributions to culture and history. For others, jazz is a reminder of "an oppressive and racist society and restrictions on their artistic visions".<ref>{{cite news|title=African American Musicians Reflect On 'What Is This Thing Called Jazz?' In New Book By UC Professor |newspaper=[[Oakland Post (California)|Oakland Post]]|date=20 March 2002 |volume=38 |issue=79 |page=7 |id={{ProQuest|367372060}}}}</ref> [[Amiri Baraka]] argues that there is a "white jazz" genre that expresses [[Whiteness studies|whiteness]].<ref name="BarakaReader">{{cite book |last1=Baraka |first1=Amiri |url=https://archive.org/details/leroijonesamirib00bara |title=The LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka reader |date=2000 |publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press |isbn=978-1-5602-5238-2 |edition=2nd |page=42 |url-access=registration}}</ref> White jazz musicians appeared in the Midwest and in other areas throughout the U.S. [[Papa Jack Laine]], who ran the Reliance band in New Orleans in the 1910s, was called "the father of white jazz".<ref name="Yurochko">{{cite book |last1=Yurochko |first1=Bob |title=A Short History of Jazz |date=1993 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8304-1595-3 |page=10 |quote=He is known as the 'Father of White Jazz'}}</ref> The [[Original Dixieland Jazz Band]], whose members were white, were the first jazz group to record, and [[Bix Beiderbecke]] was one of the most prominent jazz soloists of the 1920s.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Philip |title=Jazz Writings |url=https://archive.org/details/jazzwritingsessa00lark |url-access=limited |date=2004 |publisher=Continuum |isbn=978-0-8264-7699-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/jazzwritingsessa00lark/page/94 94]}}</ref> The Chicago Style was developed by white musicians such as [[Eddie Condon]], [[Bud Freeman]], [[Jimmy McPartland]], and [[Dave Tough]]. Others from Chicago such as [[Benny Goodman]] and [[Gene Krupa]] became leading members of swing during the 1930s.<ref name="midwest">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3Xn7jMx1RYC&pg=PA569 |title=The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia |date=2006 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-2530-0349-2 |editor1-last=Cayton |editor1-first=Andrew R.L. |page=569 |editor2-last=Sisson |editor2-first=Richard |editor3-last=Zacher |editor3-first=Chris}}</ref> Many bands included both Black and white musicians. These musicians helped change attitudes toward race in the U.S.<ref name="HowHentoff">{{cite news |last1=Hentoff |first1=Nat |title=How Jazz Helped Hasten the Civil Rights Movement |work=The Wall Street Journal |date= January 15, 2009}}</ref>
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