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In the United States, the excluded, underestimated, marginalized music included all but the most schooled music made by African Americans, virtually all music of rural and small-town white Southerners, and while there had already been, in Jelly Roll Morton’s description, a “Spanish tinge” in American popular music for many years, Latino music wasn’t going to cross the border into American parlors or stages, either. And then Ralph Peer came along. He saw as much potential in passed-over, professionally neglected music, and did as much to make something of it, as any one person ever has. In the initial breakthrough idea Peer had defined and worked on at Okeh, they had looked for homespun performers, in blues, hillbilly, gospel, regional jazz, and began to record them, specifically for the same populations from which they had emerged.