What are Juke Joints?

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Long before R&B became the soundtrack of the city, its roots were laid in the rural South — inside the raw, rebellious energy of juke joints.

Juke joints were underground spaces built by and for Black people during segregation. They were places where the blues grew — where soul was poured into song after long days of labor. As the Great Migration spread Black communities north, these cultural spaces evolved into new forms across cities like Chicago, Detroit, and New York — and so did the music. Blues became rhythm & blues. And a new genre was born.

This episode of Rhythm & Rhymes explores how these overlooked institutions helped shape modern Black music and nightlife culture as we know it.

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