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125 relations: Accordion, Adolf Hitler, African Americans, Alan Lomax, Aluminum disc, American Record Company, American Record Corporation, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Apoliticism, Apollo Theater, Assault, BGO Records, Big Bill Broonzy, Biographical film, Blanchard, Louisiana, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blues, Bowie County, Texas, Brownie McGhee, Bryn Mawr College, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, California, Capitol Records, CBS, Central Unit, Centrism, Chain gang, Cohabitation, Communist party, Country blues, Daily Worker, Dallas, David Geffen, Diatonic button accordion, Europe, Find a Grave, Folk music, Folklore studies, Folkways Records, France, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gandy dancer, Golden Gate Quartet, Goodnight, Irene, Gordon Parks, Gospel music, Great Depression, Guitar, Harlem, Harmonica, ..., Harrison County, Texas, Harvard University, Henrietta Yurchenco, Henry Holt and Company, Howard Hughes, In the Pines, Jack Johnson (boxer), Jean Harlow, John Lomax, Josh White, Kurt Cobain, Lap steel guitar, Leadbelly (film), Left-wing politics, Library of Congress, Life (magazine), Lou Gehrig, Louisiana, Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, Louisiana State Penitentiary, Macmillan Publishers (United States), Magnetic tape, Mandolin, Manhattan, Midnight Special (song), Minneapolis, Modern Language Association, Moonshine, Mooringsport, Louisiana, Moses Asch, MTV Unplugged in New York, New York City, Newsreel, Nicholas Ray, Oscar K. Allen, Parole, Pat Morris Neff, Pennsylvania, Pete Seeger, Piano, Pop Chronicles, RCA, RCA Records, Red-light district, Republican Party (United States), Richard Wright (author), RMS Titanic, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Roger E. Mosley, Rounder Records, Scottsboro Boys, Shotgun shell, Shreveport, Louisiana, Singing, Smithsonian Folkways, Songster, Sonny Terry, Sony Music, Spotify, Sugar Land, Texas, Take This Hammer, The March of Time, The Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs, The Wall Street Journal, Time (magazine), Twelve-string guitar, University of Texas at Austin, Victor Talking Machine Company, Violin, Wendell Willkie, Woody Guthrie, World War II, 1900 United States Census, 1910 United States Census, 1930 United States Census. Expand index (75 more) »
Accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.
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Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.
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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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Alan Lomax
Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.
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Aluminum disc
In the field of audio recording, an aluminum disc (aluminium in the UK and elsewhere) is a phonograph (gramophone in the UK) record made of bare aluminum, a medium introduced in the late 1920s for making one-off recordings.
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American Record Company
The American Record Company was an American record label that was in business from 1904 to 1906.
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American Record Corporation
American Record Corporation (ARC), also referred to as American Record Company, American Recording Corporation, or (erroneously) as ARC Records, was an American record company.
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND), and Lou Gehrig's disease, is a specific disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles.
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Apoliticism
Apoliticism is apathy or antipathy towards all political affiliations.
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Apollo Theater
The Apollo Theater at 253 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (formerly Seventh Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (formerly Eighth Avenue) in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, pp.528-29 is a music hall which is a noted venue for African-American performers.
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Assault
An assault is the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action.
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BGO Records
BGO Records (Beat Goes On) is a record label specializing in classic rock, blues, jazz and folk music.
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Big Bill Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley, June 26, 1903 – August 14, 1958) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist.
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Biographical film
A biographical film, or biopic (abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people.
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Blanchard, Louisiana
Blanchard is a town in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Blind Lemon Jefferson
Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter, and musician.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Bowie County, Texas
Bowie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Brownie McGhee
Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an African-American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.
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Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr College (Welsh) is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
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Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Caddo Parish (French: Paroisse de Caddo) is a parish located in the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Capitol Records
Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.
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CBS
CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.
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Central Unit
The Central Unit (C, previously the Imperial State Prison Farm and the Central State Prison Farm) was a Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) men's prison in Sugar Land, Texas.
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Centrism
In politics, centrism—the centre (British English/Canadian English/Australian English) or the center (American English/Philippine English)—is a political outlook or specific position that involves acceptance or support of a balance of a degree of social equality and a degree of social hierarchy, while opposing political changes which would result in a significant shift of society either strongly to the left or the right.
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Chain gang
A chain gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment.
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Cohabitation
Cohabitation is an arrangement where two people who are not married live together.
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Communist party
A communist party is a political party that advocates the application of the social and economic principles of communism through state policy.
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Country blues
Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, that mixes blues elements with characteristics of country and folk.
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Daily Worker
The Daily Worker was a newspaper published in New York City by the Communist Party USA, a formerly Comintern-affiliated organization.
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Dallas
Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.
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David Geffen
David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American business magnate, producer, film studio executive, and philanthropist.
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Diatonic button accordion
A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Find a Grave
Find A Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records.
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Folk music
Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.
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Folklore studies
Folklore studies, also known as folkloristics, and occasionally tradition studies or folk life studies in Britain, is the formal academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore.
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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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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Gandy dancer
Gandy dancer is a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States, more formally referred to as "section hands", who laid and maintained railroad tracks in the years before the work was done by machines.
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Golden Gate Quartet
The Golden Gate Quartet (a.k.a. The Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet) is an American vocal group.
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Goodnight, Irene
"Goodnight, Irene" or "Irene, Goodnight," is a 20th-century American folk standard, written in 3/4 time, first recorded by American blues musician Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter in 1933.
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Gordon Parks
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, musician, writer and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African-Americans—and in glamour photography.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Harlem
Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan.
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Harmonica
The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.
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Harrison County, Texas
Harrison County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Texas.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Henrietta Yurchenco
Henrietta Yurchenco (born Henrietta Weiss in New Haven, Connecticut, March 22, 1916; died New York City, New York, December 10, 2007) was an American ethnomusicologist, folklorist, radio producer, and radio host.
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Henry Holt and Company
Henry Holt and Company is an American book publishing company based in New York City.
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Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, film director, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.
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In the Pines
"In the Pines", also known as "Where Did You Sleep Last Night?" and "Black Girl", is a traditional American folk song originating from two songs, "In the Pines" and "The Longest Train", both of whose authorship is unknown and date back to at least the 1870s (though some contend an older, Irish history).
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Jack Johnson (boxer)
John Arthur Johnson (March 31, 1878 – June 10, 1946), nicknamed the Galveston Giant, was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first African American world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915).
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Jean Harlow
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John Lomax
John Avery Lomax (September 23, 1867 – January 26, 1948) was an American teacher, a pioneering musicologist, and a folklorist who did much for the preservation of American folk music.
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Josh White
Joshua Daniel White (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor and civil rights activist.
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Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
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Lap steel guitar
The lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar which is typically played with the instrument in a horizontal position on the performer’s lap or otherwise supported.
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Leadbelly (film)
Leadbelly is a 1976 film chronicling the life of folk singer Huddie William Ledbetter (better known as "Lead Belly").
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Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics supports social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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Life (magazine)
Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.
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Lou Gehrig
Henry Louis Gehrig, born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig (June 19, 1903June 2, 1941), nicknamed "the Iron Horse", was an American baseball first baseman who played his entire professional career (17 seasons) in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1923 until 1939.
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Louisiana
Louisiana is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Louisiana Music Hall of Fame
The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame (LMHOF) is an IRS certified 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization based in the state's capital of Baton Rouge, that seeks to honor and preserve Louisiana's rich music culture and heritage and to further educate its citizens and people worldwide about the state's unique role in contributing to American indigenous and popular music in the 20th century.
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Louisiana State Penitentiary
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South" and "The Farm"Sutton, Keith "Catfish". "". ESPN Outdoors. May 31, 2006. Retrieved on August 25, 2010.) is a maximum-security prison farm in Louisiana operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections.
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Macmillan Publishers (United States)
Macmillan Publishers USA was the former name of a now mostly defunct American publishing company.
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Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.
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Mandolin
A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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Midnight Special (song)
"Midnight Special" is a traditional folk song thought to have originated among prisoners in the American South.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America, often referred to as the Modern Language Association (MLA), is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature.
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Moonshine
Moonshine was originally a slang term for high-proof distilled spirits usually produced illicitly, without government authorization.
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Mooringsport, Louisiana
Mooringsport is a village in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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Moses Asch
Moses Asch (December 2, 1905 – October 19, 1986), often known as Moe Asch, was a Polish-American recording engineer and record executive.
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MTV Unplugged in New York
MTV Unplugged in New York is a live album by American grunge band Nirvana.
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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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Newsreel
A newsreel is a form of short documentary film, containing news stories and items of topical interest, that was prevalent between the 1910s and the late 1960s.
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Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause. Ray is also appreciated for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and In a Lonely Place, as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer.
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Oscar K. Allen
Oscar Kelly Allen Sr. (August 8, 1882 – January 28, 1936), also known as O. K. Allen, was the 42nd Governor of Louisiana from 1932 to 1936.
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Parole
Parole is a temporary release of a prisoner who agrees to certain conditions before the completion of the maximum sentence period, originating from the French parole ("voice, spoken words").
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Pat Morris Neff
Pat Morris Neff (November 26, 1871 – January 20, 1952) was the 28th Governor of Texas from 1921 to 1925, ninth President of Baylor University from 1932 to 1947, and twenty-fifth president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1944 to 1946.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist.
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Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
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Pop Chronicles
The Pop Chronicles are two radio documentary series which together "may constitute the most complete audio history of 1940s-60s popular music." Both were produced by John Gilliland.
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RCA
The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded as the Radio Corporation of America in 1919.
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RCA Records
RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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Red-light district
A red-light district or pleasure district is a part of an urban area where a concentration of prostitution and sex-oriented businesses, such as sex shops, strip clubs, and adult theaters are found.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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RMS Titanic
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.
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Roger E. Mosley
Roger Earl Mosley (born December 18, 1938) is a retired American actor, director and writer best known for his role as the helicopter pilot Theodore "T.C." Calvin in the television series, Magnum, P.I..
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Rounder Records
Rounder Records is an American record label specializing in folk, bluegrass, blues, and other forms of American roots music.
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Scottsboro Boys
The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers, ages 13 to 20, accused in Alabama of raping two White American women on a train in 1931.
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Shotgun shell
A shotgun shell is a self-contained cartridge typically loaded with multiple metallic "shot", which are small, generally spherical projectiles.
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Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is the third-largest city in the state of Louisiana and the 122nd-largest city in the United States.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Smithsonian Folkways
Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Songster
A "songster" is a wandering musician, usually but not always African-American, of the type which first appeared in the late 19th century in the southern United States.
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Sonny Terry
Saunders Teddell, or Saunders Terrell (or other variants, sources differ) (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.
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Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.
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Spotify
Spotify Technology SA is a Swedish entertainment company founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
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Sugar Land, Texas
Sugar Land is a city in Fort Bend County, Texas, United States, within the southeast metropolitan area.
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Take This Hammer
"Take This Hammer" (Roud 4299, AFS 745B1) is a prison, logging, and railroad work song, which has the same Roud number as another song, "Nine Pound Hammer", with which it shares verses.
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The March of Time
The March of Time is an American short film series sponsored by Time Inc. and shown in movie theaters from 1935 to 1951.
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The Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs
The Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs is an album by Lead Belly and the Golden Gate Quartet, recorded for Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey in 1940 and released in 1941.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Twelve-string guitar
The 12-string guitar is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a richer, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar.
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University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.
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Victor Talking Machine Company
The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American record company and phonograph manufacturer headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.
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Violin
The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.
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Wendell Willkie
Wendell Lewis Willkie (born Lewis Wendell Willkie; February 18, 1892 – October 8, 1944) was an American lawyer and corporate executive, and the 1940 Republican nominee for President.
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Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter, one of the most significant figures in American folk music; his songs, including social justice songs, such as "This Land Is Your Land", have inspired several generations both politically and musically.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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1900 United States Census
The Twelfth United States Census, conducted by the Census Office on June 1, 1900, determined the resident population of the United States to be 76,212,168, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 62,979,766 persons enumerated during the 1890 Census.
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1910 United States Census
The Thirteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau on April 15, 1910, determined the resident population of the United States to be 92,228,496, an increase of 21.0 percent over the 76,212,168 persons enumerated during the 1900 Census.
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1930 United States Census
The Fifteenth United States Census, conducted by the Census Bureau one month from April 1, 1930, determined the resident population of the United States to be 122,775,046, an increase of 13.7 percent over the 106,021,537 persons enumerated during the 1920 Census.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Belly
