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For more than a decade, this appealing brand of swing jazz was the most popular music in America. During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz ...

The combination of African and European musical elements resulted in new styles of popular American music - including ragtime, blues and jazz.

Think about radio, and what often comes to mind is the crystal clear music and spoken words broadcast by FM stations across America. But radio wasn't always so advanced -- or so popular.