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Start of WWI
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Alban Berg - "Wozzeck" (Composed 1914-1922)
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Dixieland Jazz Band - First Jazz Recording
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League of Nations Established
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Prohibition Begins
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Arnold Schoenberg - "Piano Suite, Op. 25" (Composed 1921-1923)
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Bessie Smith - "Back Water Blues"
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King Oliver & Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five - "West End Blues"
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Kurt Weill - "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" from Die Dreigroschenoper
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U.S. Stock Market Crash
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William Grant Still - "Afro-American Symphony"
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Igor Stravinsky - "Symphony of Psalms" (Choral Symphony)
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Ruth Crawford Seeger - "String Quartet 1931"
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Billie Holiday - "You Let Me Down"
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Spanish Civil War Begins
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Dmitri Shostakovich - "Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47
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Billie Holiday - "A Sailboat in the Moonlight"
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Heitor Villa-Lobos - "Bachianas Brasilieras, No. 5"
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Start of WWII
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The Golden Gate Quartet - "Listen to the Lambs"
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Duke Ellington - "Cotton Tail"
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Charles Ives - "The Unanswered Question"
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Dmitri Shostakovich - "Symphony No. 7 (Leningrad)"
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Olivier Messiaen - "Quartet for the End of Time"
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Duke Ellington - "Black, Brown and Beige"
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Aaron Copland - "Appalachian Spring"
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Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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Béla Bartók - "Piano Concerto No. 3"
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Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie - "Anthropology"
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Cold War Begins
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Jackie Robinson Breaks Baseball Color Line
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Johnny Otis - "Midnight at the Barrelhouse"
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Bud Powell, Ray Brown, Max Roach - "Tempus Fugit"
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NATO Established
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John Cage - 4'33"
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Brown v. Board of Education
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NASA Established
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Charles Mingus - "Fables of Faubus"
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Bill Evans / Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue" from Blue in Green
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John Coltrane - "Giant Steps"
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Ornette Coleman - "Free Jazz" (Double Quartet)
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Martin Luther King Jr. - "I Have a Dream" Speech
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Little Julian Herrera - "Lonely Lonely Nights"
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Milton Babbitt - "Philomel"
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Shirley Scott and Stanley Turrentine - "Rapid Shave"
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Nina Simone - "Mississippi Goddam"
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Lyndon B. Johnson Signs Into Law Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Watts Rebellion
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John Coltrane - "Psalm" from A Love Supreme
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Steve Reich - "Piano Phase"
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Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin - "Raga Piloo" from East Meets West Volume 2
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Jimi Hendrix - "Star-Spangled Banner" (Winterland)
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Jimi Hendrix - "Star-Spangled Banner" (Woodstock)
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Jimi Hendrix - "Star-Spangled Banner" (Record Plant)
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Neil Armstrong - First Man on the Moon
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Roe v. Wade
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Olly Wilson - "Sometimes"
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Alfred Schnittke - "Concerto Grosso No. 1"
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United States Bicentennial (200th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Declaration of Independence)
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Rhodesia ---> Republic of Zimbabwe
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First Personal Computers Present
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Sofia Gubaidulina - "Rejoice! Sonata for Violin and Cello"
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Arvo Pärt - "Te Deum"
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Berlin Wall Falls
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Stella Chiweshe - "Chachimurenga"
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Public Enemy - "Fight the Power"
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Apartheid Ends in South Africa
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Bright Sheng - "Seven Tunes Heard in China" (for solo cello)
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Justin Magaya, Luken Pasipamire, and Hakurotwi Mude - "Nhemamusasa" (played at a bira)
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Silk Road Ensemble Founded
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Angela Davis - "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism"
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Beauler Dyoko - "Nhemamusasa"
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Osvaldo Golijov - "La Pasión según San Marcos"
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Jennifer Higdon - "blue cathedral"
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9/11 Terrorist Attacks
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"Jazz" - a Documentary by Ken Burns
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"The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch"
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John Adams - "Doctor Atomic"
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Hiromi Uehara - "Return of the Kung Fu World Champion"
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Stella Chiweshe - "Rwavasekuru"
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Yo-Yo Ma & Friends, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Silk Road Ensemble - "Arabian Waltz"
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Bongani Ndodana-Breen - "Winnie: The Opera"
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Death of Osama bin Laden
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Newton Gwara and Chaka Marimba - "Nhemamusasa"
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Hildegard Westerkamp - "At the Edge of Wilderness"
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"The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble"
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José James - "Peace Power Change"
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Yo-Yo Ma & Friends, Wu Man, Silk Road Ensemble - "Green (Vincent's Tune)"
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Anoushka Shankar and Patricia Kopatchinskaja - "Raga Piloo"
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Beyoncé - "Formation"
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Samora Pinderhughes - "The Transformations Suite"
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Fradreck Mujuru and Erica Azim - "Nhemamusasa"
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Childish Gambino - "This is America"
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Hope Masike - "Ndinewe Live"