Asked by Keisha

All of our popular music styles grew out of ragtime and its New Orleans based cousin, jazz.
Option A
False
Option B
True
Question 29
Question 29

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Option A — False.

Explanation: That's an overgeneralization. Ragtime and New Orleans jazz influenced many popular American styles, but other genres developed from different roots too (blues, gospel, folk, European classical traditions, country, Caribbean/Latin music, later funk/disco/hip‑hop, etc.).