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Passage A is adapted from a book by a music historian, and passage B from an anthropology journal.

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Blues musicians v. griots · Griots were community historians

They preserved traditions and culture, and held high status in their communities. This is different from the role of blues musicians.

Blues musicians · Music based on personal expression and societal alienation

These feelings resulted from slavery, which destroyed communities.

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Power of blues music · Reflected pain and hardship

Slavery destroyed important social institutions. Blues reflected effects of this.

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Wolof social hierarchy · Lowest caste was griot

Facts about griots · Shouted and sang praise about their patrons

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More facts about griots · Griots spread community values and helped increase patron's status

Imagine having a personal hype-man walking with you everywhere. That's the griot. They spread values by singing about how their patron met those values.

Passage Style

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Stated

It’s difficult to predict the correct answer just based on the question stem, since there’s no immediately obvious difference between how the two passages discuss griots. Perhaps the correct answer might have something to do with Passage A’s reference to griots as serving the place of societal institutions; Passage B doesn’t describe griots in that way.

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Passage A doesn’t use griots to refer to non-musicians.

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Supported, because Passage A discusses griots only as a kind of musician whereas Passage B discusses griots as both musicians and social class.

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Passage A doesn’t discuss griots as “contemporary” (meaning, modern) musicians.

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Passage B doesn’t suggest griots performed “only” at community gatherings. We have no reason to think griots in Passage B didn’t perform for small groups, too. Although Passage B mentions community gatherings, this doesn’t imply these were the only places griots performed.

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Passage A doesn’t discuss the employment arrangements of griots.

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