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Alphabetically arranged entries provide information about key artists, songs, events, issues, and institutions associated with American popular country music.
5) Folk
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Alphabetically arranged entries provide information on American folk music artists, styles, instruments, and songwriters.
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Discusses from artists such as Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin to LL Cool J and Dr. Dre, the performers who pioneered and perfected these musical forms have become household names. Rhythm and Blues, Rap, and Hip-Hop explores the characteristics and importance of each of these types of music and its history and evolution.
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"[This] is the tale of urban change, mass migrations, ethnic acculturation, a changing radio and recording industry, and the dynamics of cultural change in the "sounds"--Sonic and linguistic--that every generation seeks to make and re-make for itself"--Page 4 of cover.
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American popular music volume 8
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"Tells the story of how West Virginia-born Tim O'Brien first made a name for himself as the mandolin- and fiddle-playing lead singer and principal songwriter for the 1980s bluegrass band Hot Rize, then pushed beyond bluegrass by moving to the US West for a time and building a music ecosystem through recording, producing, songwriting, collaborating, and forming new bands, a recording label, and a growing audience"--
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