American music: from folk to jazz and pop
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Commentary by Duke Ellington
Traces lesser streams of American music such as the hoedown, square dance, and hillbilly song. Tex Ritter at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry discusses country music. A close relation, folk music, is discussed and performed by Peter, Paul, and Mary
Summary
Traces the development of popular music or jazz in American history and life. Presents pictures and reproduced music that show the African and European roots in New Orleans jazz and gospel./ia metadata americanmusicfroongs and dances. Includes performances by old time and recent artists.
Traces lesser streams of American music such as the hoedown, square dance, and hillbilly song. Tex Ritter at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry discusses country music. A close relation, folk music, is discussed and performed by Peter, Paul, and Mary
Summary
Traces the development of popular music or jazz in American history and life. Presents pictures and reproduced music that show the African and European roots in New Orleans jazz and gospel./ia metadata americanmusicfroongs and dances. Includes performances by old time and recent artists.
Complete catalog record
Looks at the “musical explosion” by tracing the roots of popular music or jazz in American history. Studies the African and European roots in New Orleans jazz and gospel songs in hillbilly folk songs and dances, showing many of the actual oletime as well as recent performers who gave American popular music its first expression, and developed it into the internationally recognised jazz of today.
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