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Since its introduction as a style of music in the early 1900s, jazz and the musicians who play it have undergone harsh, uneducated criticism. Most of these critics have based their arguments around race, the style of the music, and the social statuses of the musicians, and have made many assumptions about the music and the musicians that are untrue. If one were to study the roots of jazz music, they would find that its roots were grounded in the Deep South during the time of slavery. The call and response performed by the slaves in the fields while singing their songs of hope and sorrow was the basis of early jazz, as can be heard in any of