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Please choose and respond to one of the following two prompts and then add comments to another student’s posting. A substantive post and reply should be about 75 words each.

1. Chapter 11. The basic issue in early gospel music was whether African American religious music should support attempts by Blacks to assimilate into mainstream White culture, or if their religious music should be distinctly their own and celebrate their African roots. Consider describing a situation in your own life where you needed to make a choice between staying “true” to your own identity or modifying your behavior in order to fit into the group. How did you deal with this, and why did you make the choices you did? Knowing what you know now, would you do anything differently given the same situation?
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2. Chapter 12. Amedee Ardoin and Dennis McGee had an unusual partnership that defied the racial barriers of the day. Have you ever had a friend of a different race or ethnicity (or who was just really ‘different’) and what impact, if any, did that difference have on your friendship and/or the way you interacted with the rest of the world?