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  • 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary ... an article in Life magazine on the American Civil Rights Movement and ...
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  • #039; favorite singer Della Reese, a Detroit native herself. ... group performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, American Bandstand, and Shindig! ...
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  • June 21, 1902 – October 3, 1969) was an American blues singer, guitarist ... bluesmen of his era, he dropped out of the music business for 30 years until ...
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  • Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play ... consciously or not, I stand fast upon my native ground." ...
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  • The Serrano are a Native American tribe of Southern California. They ... their habitat. Through their basketmaking, music, and language, they hope ...
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  • as one of the most important African-American writers of the mid twentieth ... titled a collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son, in homage to Wright ...
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  • of flamboyant French feeling by composing music that is characterized by ... with the can-can, a physically demanding music hall dance, performed by ...
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  • Alternative rock (also called alternative music The term "alternative ... or simply alternative) is a branch of the rock music genre that became ...
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  • Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Anthropology ... 19, 1952) was a photographer of the American West and of Native American ...
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  • in the Passamaquoddy language) are a Native American/First Nations people ... the number of children who speak the native language. To modern Western ...
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  • simply as Selena, was an iconic Mexican American singer who has been called ... Selena was born in Lake Jackson, Texas to a Mexican-American father ...
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  • Atonality describes music that does not use a tonal center or key ... Taylor (Radano 1993, 108-109), have written music that is described as atonal ...
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  • A revolution occurred in twentieth century music listening as the ... Music performances became increasingly visual with the broadcast and ...
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  • by leaders of the Onondaga tribe about the Native American religious traditions ... The recording was released as an LP titled Music of Tibet, ...
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  • the International Society for Contemporary Music festival in Salzburg, which ... nature of his scores. Today much of his music sounds relatively tame in ...
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  • symbolize, respectively, four significant American ideals: independence, democratic ... (see Controversy below). Among white American settlers, the peak was known ...
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  • attempt to resolve the issues of the American Revolution in concert with ... social science. He wrote on the local laws, music, literature, botany, and ...
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  • Piute) refers to two related groups of Native Americans — the Northern ... movement. He prophesied an end to white American expansion while preaching ...
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  • Edward Sapir (January 26, 1884 – February 4, 1939) was an American ... initial impetus for Sapir's study of American languages. Boas invoked ...
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  • responsible for the strong influence of American Indian culture in the BSA. seminal figure in the emergence of the American conservation philosophy ...
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  • 17, 1821 – December 10, 1882) was an American photographer who is best ... War. His photos became foundational to American photography. They combined ...
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  • The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's ... Although there are many different varieties of music in Africa, there ...
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  • The Drifters are a long-lived American doo wop/R&B band, who helped ... the group and was replaced by Cleveland native Johnny Moore (of The Hornets ...
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  • in an 1880 report by the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnography. In 1883, Powell ... cultures have exchanged and blended foods, music, dances, clothing, tools ...
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  • horsemen and cowhands of the South American pampas, chacos or Patagonian ... by South America’s ruling class, native-born aristocrats called criollos ...
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  • Like many American colleges, Amherst was founded with the goal of ... having published the first dictionary of American English with printer William ...
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  • it is bordered by Cuba. It supports major American, Mexican, and Cuban fishing ... its multicultural heritage as well as its music and cuisine and is considered ...
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  • advocate for women but for the rights of Native Americans and religious minorities ... was able to practice law, like other American women until the passage ...
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  • – December 10, 1967) was an influential American deep soul singer, best known ... sing rock and roll, "the devil's music." His parents were well ...
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  • (March 25, 1942 - August 16, 2018) was an American soul, R&B, and gospel ... Franklin maintained her position in the music recording industry throughout ...
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  • 12, 1853 - September 7, 1918) was an American educator, psychologist, ... be formally admitted as students at many American universities. Her work greatly ...
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  • era. He became a cultural icon in his native Germany and was greatly admired ... Philharmonic Orchestra. Later he became music director of the Vienna Philharmonic ...
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  • Dolly Rebecca Parton (January 19, 1946 - ) is an American country ... in 1999, she was inducted into the Country Music Hall of fame. In 2005, Parton ...
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  • |Genre = Pop Music, Country Music |Occupation = ... Brenda Lee (born December 11, 1944) is an American country-pop singer ...
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  • one of the first dance departments in an American university. It has since ... Ruth St. Denis was the first American dancer to incorporate the traditions ...
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  • speech, or any form of content that is not music. In the U.S., the Library ... sometimes calling upon a complete cast, music, and sound effects, though ...
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  • Henry Cowell (March 11, 1897 – December 10, 1965) was an American ... I may wish to draw on, for the meaning of music does depend on the materials ...
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  • as early as 1861. In 1898, the Spanish-American War increased the prison ... A 19-month long occupation of the island by allied Native Americans ...
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  • he decided then that he would make Qawwali music his career. His first public ... group was in March 1971, at an annual music festival organized by Radio ...
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  • 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was a prominent American actor who transformed Hollywood ... activists to march for civil rights and Native American rights. He refused ...
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  • mainland South America sits on the South American Plate. Geopolitically, all ... years ago, which resulted in the Great American Interchange. The Andes, ...
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  • under various European, African, and Native American influences, and ... of the French, Spanish, African, and Native Americans, and the quintessential ...
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  • Pop music, often called simply pop, is contemporary music and a common ... Pop music may include elements of rock, hip hop, reggae, dance, R ...
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  • nine colonial colleges founded before the American Revolution. Its founding ... Whittaker and Samson Occom (an early Native American clergyman) raised ...
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  • over 4000 songs and provided background music for more than 800 Indian ... Ilaiyaraaja had been the most prominent composer of film music in ...
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  • city, Santa Fe is a unique blend of Native American, Spanish, Mexican ... 9,000 B.C.E.). Later inhabitants include Native Americans of the Anasazi ...
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  • The Eagles are an American rock band that was formed in Los Angeles ... with the direction the band's music was taking and his own diminished ...
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  • Grand Slam singles titles in the French, American, and British championships ... Lacoste was nicknamed le Crocodile by the American press. The French ...
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  • 17, 1935 – November 10, 2001) was an American author, best known for his ... he called "Acid Tests" involving music (such as Kesey's favorite ...
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  • Clyde Jackson Browne (October 9, 1948 - ) is an American rock singer ... in 1966 and was a staff writer at the Nina Music branch of Elektra Records ...
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