replaced with black members . How could this be ? This was rock and roll . It was something new . Yes , the music was new but , the industry was still being run by the same people who had been running the industry for the previous 40 years ! Previously , the big bands weren ' t integrated . Bands were either all black or all white . Benny Goodman didn ' t see the point to that + he was the first one to have integration in a band . Naturally , he caught some flack for that .
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