In 1936, Isabel Morse Jones, a music critic for the Los Angeles Times, made a modest boast: “We in the west have been permitted freedom to develop our music in our own way to a certain extent, because ...

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Jennifer Villas doesn't think she has an accent, but says when she travels to other states her friends constantly point one out. Villas explained, "When I travel to New York, people will say like 'oh, ...