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60 relations: Academy Awards, African Americans, Alabama, Angela Davis, August Wilson, Bessie (film), Bessie Smith, Billboard (magazine), Black Bottom (dance), Blind Blake, Blues, Blues Hall of Fame, Bob Dylan, Boll Weevil (song), Chicago, Classic female blues, Columbus, Georgia, Cornet, F. S. Wolcott, First African Baptist Church (Columbus, Georgia), Highway 61 Revisited, J. Mayo Williams, Jimmy Blythe, King Oliver, Library of Congress, List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients (Q–Z), List of people on the postage stamps of the United States, Louis Armstrong, Lovie Austin, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mamie Smith, Midwestern United States, Minstrel show, Mo'Nique, Myocardial infarction, National Recording Preservation Board, National Recording Registry, New Georgia Encyclopedia, New Orleans, Oxford University Press, Papa Charlie Jackson, Paramount Records, Pat Chappelle, Pops Foster, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rome, Georgia, Russell County, Alabama, See See Rider, Sidney Bechet, Singing, ..., Stagger Lee, Sterling Allen Brown, Tampa Red, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The Rabbit's Foot Company, Theatre Owners Booking Association, Thomas A. Dorsey, Tombstone Blues, Vaudeville, Westminster John Knox. Expand index (10 more) »
Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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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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Alabama
Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author.
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August Wilson
August Wilson (April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama.
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Bessie (film)
Bessie is an HBO TV film about legendary American blues singer Bessie Smith, and focuses on her transformation as a struggling young singer into "The Empress of the Blues".
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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.
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Black Bottom (dance)
The black bottom is a dance which became popular in the 1920s—the Roaring Twenties, also known as the Jazz Age, and the era of the flapper.
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Blind Blake
Arthur "Blind" Blake (1896 – December 1, 1934) was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist.
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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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Blues Hall of Fame
The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum located in Memphis, Tennessee.
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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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Boll Weevil (song)
"Boll Weevil" is a traditional blues song, also known by similar titles such as "Boweavil" or "Boll Weevil Blues".
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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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Classic female blues
Classic female blues was an early form of blues music, popular in the 1920s.
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Columbus, Georgia
Columbus is a consolidated city-county in the west central U.S. state of Georgia.
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Cornet
The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.
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F. S. Wolcott
Fred Swift "F.S." Wolcott (May 2, 1882 – July 27, 1967) was an American minstrel show proprietor and plantation owner who bought the Original Rabbit's Foot Company in 1912 after its founder's death, and operated it until 1950.
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First African Baptist Church (Columbus, Georgia)
First African Baptist Church is a historic church at 901 5th Avenue in Columbus, Georgia.
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Highway 61 Revisited
Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965 by Columbia Records.
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J. Mayo Williams
Jay Mayo "Ink" Williams (September 25, 1894 – January 2, 1980) was a pioneering African-American producer of recorded blues music.
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Jimmy Blythe
James Louis Blythe (May 20, 1901 – June 14, 1931) was an American jazz and boogie-woogie pianist and composer.
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King Oliver
Joseph Nathan Oliver (December 19, 1885 – April 10, 1938) better known as King Oliver or Joe Oliver, was an American jazz cornet player and bandleader.
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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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List of Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients (Q–Z)
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List of people on the postage stamps of the United States
This article lists people who have been featured on United States postage stamps, listed by their name, the year they were first featured on a stamp, and a very short description of their notability.
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.
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Lovie Austin
Cora "Lovie" Austin (September 19, 1887 – July 8, 1972) was an American Chicago bandleader, session musician, composer, singer, and arranger during the 1920s classic blues era.
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the twentieth century African American experience.
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Mamie Smith
Mamie Smith (née Robinson; May 26, c. 1883 – September 16, 1946) was an American vaudeville singer, dancer, pianist and actress.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").
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Minstrel show
The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century.
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Mo'Nique
Monique Angela Hicks (née Imes; born December 11, 1967), known professionally as Mo'Nique, is an American comedian and actress.
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Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.
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National Recording Preservation Board
The United States National Recording Preservation Board selects recorded sounds for preservation in the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry.
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National Recording Registry
The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that "are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States." The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia
The New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) is a web-based encyclopedia containing over 2,000 articles about the state of Georgia.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (. Merriam-Webster.; La Nouvelle-Orléans) is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Papa Charlie Jackson
Papa Charlie Jackson (November 10, 1887 – May 7, 1938) was an early American bluesman and songster who accompanied himself with a banjo guitar, a guitar, or a ukulele.
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Paramount Records
Paramount Records was an American record label known for its recordings of jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson.
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Pat Chappelle
Patrick Henry "Pat" Chappelle (January 7, 1869 – October 21, 1911),Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff,, University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp.
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Pops Foster
George Murphy "Pops" Foster (May 19, 1892 – October 29, 1969) was a jazz musician best known for his vigorous slap bass playing of the string bass.
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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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Rome, Georgia
Rome is the largest city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States.
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Russell County, Alabama
Russell County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama.
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See See Rider
"See See Rider", also known as "C.C. Rider", "See See Rider Blues" or "Easy Rider", is a popular American 12-bar blues song, originally recorded by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey in 1924.
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet (May 14, 1897 – May 14, 1959) was an African American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.
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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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Stagger Lee
"Stagger Lee", also known as "Stagolee" and other variants, is a popular American folk song about the murder of Billy Lyons by "Stag" Lee Shelton in St. Louis, Missouri at Christmas, 1895.
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Sterling Allen Brown
Sterling Allen Brown (May 1, 1901 – January 13, 1989) was a black professor, folklorist, poet and literary critic.
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Tampa Red
Tampa Red (January 8, 1904 – March 19, 1981), born Hudson Woodbridge but known from childhood as Hudson Whittaker, was an American Chicago blues musician.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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The Rabbit's Foot Company
The Rabbit's Foot Company, also known as the Rabbit('s) Foot Minstrels and colloquially as "The Foots", was a long-running minstrel and variety troupe that toured as a tent show in the American South between 1900 and the late 1950s.
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Theatre Owners Booking Association
Theatre Owners Booking Association, or T.O.B.A., was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s.
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Thomas A. Dorsey
Thomas Andrew Dorsey (July 1, 1899 – January 23, 1993) was known as "the father of black gospel music" and was at one time so closely associated with the field that songs written in the new style were sometimes known as "dorseys".
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Tombstone Blues
"Tombstone Blues" is the second track of Bob Dylan's 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.
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Westminster John Knox
Westminster John Knox is a book publisher in Louisville, Kentucky and is part of Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, the publishing arm of the Louisville, Kentucky-based Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Their publishing focus is on books in.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_Rainey
