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By Robert Fontenot, About.com Guide to Oldies Music since 2002

The Oldies Encyclopedia: Boogie-Woogie

Monday October 6, 2008
It's influenced swing, jazz, blues, and rock, and poked its head into the cultural mainstream several times over the course of three decades. Rock and roll would have been impossible to conceive without it... and yet this style, born in humble lumber camps, is barely recognized as a style at all anymore. Read and hear more about the "boogie-woogie" style in my new entry, the latest in a series.

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