1. The advent of vocal percussion added new dimensions to the a cappella genre and has spread very widely in modern arrangements .
2. The advent of modern percussion added new dimensions to the a cappella genre and has become very prevalent in vocal arrangements .

Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
Select from the following.
(a). no;
(b). yes;...I think the answer is
(a).