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51 relations: African Americans, American folk music revival, Appalachia, Appalachian dulcimer, Appalachian Mountains, Art song, Ballad, Barbara Allen (song), Bert Hall, Black Is the Color (of My True Love's Hair), Bob Dylan, Burl Ives, Burroughs Corporation, Cello, Chicago, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Clark County, Kentucky, Contralto, Doris Ulmann, Falsetto, Folkways Records, France, Gertrude Stein, Henry Miller, I Wonder as I Wander, It Ain't Me Babe, Joan Baez, Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky, Lute, Lyon, Marlene Dietrich, New York City, Newport Folk Festival, No Direction Home, Paris, Peter, Paul and Mary, Pretty Polly (ballad), Ralph Lyford, Schola Cantorum de Paris, Singer-songwriter, The Rosy Crucifixion, Thomas Merton, Tradition Records, United States, United States Army Air Service, University of Kentucky, University Press of Kentucky, White House, ..., World War I. Expand index (1 more) »
African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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American folk music revival
The American folk-music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.
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Appalachia
Appalachia is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.
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Appalachian dulcimer
The Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings, originally played in the Appalachian region of the United States.
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.
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Art song
An art song is a vocal music composition, usually written for one voice with piano accompaniment, and usually in the classical art music tradition.
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Ballad
A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
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Barbara Allen (song)
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud) is a traditional Scottish ballad; it later travelled to America both orally and in print, where it became a popular folk song.
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Bert Hall
Weston Birch "Bert" Hall (November 7, 1885 – December 6, 1948) was a military aviator and writer.
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Black Is the Color (of My True Love's Hair)
"Black Is the Color (of My True Love's Hair)" (Roud 3103) is a traditional folk song first known in the USA in the Appalachian Mountains but originating from Scotland, as attributed to the reference to the Clyde in the song's lyrics.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades.
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Burl Ives
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television.
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Burroughs Corporation
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment.
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Cello
The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was a conservatory, part of a girls' finishing school, founded in 1867 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Clark County, Kentucky
Clark County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.
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Contralto
A contralto is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.
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Doris Ulmann
Doris Ulmann (May 29, 1882 – August 28, 1934) was an American photographer, best known for her dignified portraits of the people of Appalachia, particularly craftsmen and musicians such as Jean Ritchie's family, made between 1928 and 1934.
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Falsetto
Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.
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Folkways Records
Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music.
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France
France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.
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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.
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Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer, expatriated in Paris at his flourishing.
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I Wonder as I Wander
"I Wonder as I Wander" is a Christian folk hymn, typically performed as a Christmas carol, written by American folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles.
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It Ain't Me Babe
"It Ain't Me Babe" is a song by Bob Dylan that originally appeared on his fourth album Another Side of Bob Dylan, which was released in 1964 by Columbia Records.
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Joan Baez
Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and activist whose contemporary folk music often includes songs of protest or social justice.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.
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Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.
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Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.
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Lute
A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
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Lyon
Lyon (Liyon), is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France.
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Marlene Dietrich
Marie Magdalene "Marlene" Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Newport Folk Festival
The Newport Folk Festival is an American annual folk-oriented music festival in Newport, Rhode Island, which began in July 1959 as a counterpart to the previously established Newport Jazz Festival.
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No Direction Home
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan is a 2005 documentary film by Martin Scorsese that traces the life of Bob Dylan, and his impact on 20th-century American popular music and culture.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Peter, Paul and Mary
Peter, Paul and Mary was an American folk group formed in New York City in 1961, during the American folk music revival phenomenon.
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Pretty Polly (ballad)
"Pretty Polly", "The Gosport Tragedy" or "The Cruel Ship's Carpenter" (Laws P36, Roud 15) is a traditional English-language folk song found in the British Isles, Canada, and the Appalachian region of North America, among other places.
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Ralph Lyford
Ralph Lyford (February 22, 1882 – September 3, 1927) was an American composer and conductor.
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Schola Cantorum de Paris
The Schola Cantorum de Paris is a private conservatory in Paris.
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Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.
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The Rosy Crucifixion
The Rosy Crucifixion, a trilogy consisting of Sexus, Plexus, and Nexus, is a fictionalized account documenting the six-year period of Henry Miller's life in Brooklyn as he falls for his second wife June and struggles to become a writer, leading up to his initial departure for Paris in 1928.
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Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was a Catalan Trappist monk of American nationality.
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Tradition Records
Tradition Records was an American record label from 1955 to 1966 that specialized in folk music.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Army Air Service
The United States Army Air ServiceCraven and Cate Vol.
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University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky (UK) is a public co-educational university in Lexington, Kentucky.
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University Press of Kentucky
The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the President of the United States.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_Niles
