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The Musical History Of Jelly

The Sporkful

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Bessie Smith's Jelly Roll

We tend not to think of black people as willing sexual beings unless they are loose, licentious, over the top, et cetera. But various forms of sexual expression have been around since the dawn of time. Black people did experience joy. And so, different kinds of play-on-words and metaphors are reflective of some of that joy.

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