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Rhythm and Blues
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A style of black popular music that originally featured a boogie-woogie-style piano accompaniment in blues form, a blues singer, and electric guitar.
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Nashville Sound
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The sound of hillbilly music produced by sophisticated recording techniques and arrangements controlled by the recording studios.
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Western Swing
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A brand of western music that used a larger instrumental ensemble including saxes, brass, and a standard jazz rhyhm section of piano, bass, and drums.
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Tin Pan Alley
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A period of opoular song writing that began in the 1890s and whose most productive years were in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Minstrel Show
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A variety show, popular in the nineteenth century, that included songs, dances, and comical skits.
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Vaudeville
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Born in 1927 with the jazz singer, the first commercial movie with a synchronized sound track.
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Honky-Tonk
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Western music performed on the piano in small-town saloons.
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Hillbillly
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Bluegrass
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Musicals
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A theatrical work that included songs, dances, staging, and drama.
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Hip-hop
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Streety poetry; rap
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Soul
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Any popular music performed by blacks for black audiences; combining elements of R&B, jazz, and black gospel.
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Rock
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An underground, ainti establishment, protest music.
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