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Benjamin Franklin invents the Glass Harmonica
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Billings New England Psalm Singer
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Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key's lyrics)
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Trail of Tears
US Government removed the southeastern native americans for the purpose of mining gold. The native americans were relocated to reservations in Oklahoma -
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PT Barnum/Jenny Lind US tour (date range)
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Gottschalk The Banjo
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Slave Songs of the United States (date published; also significance)
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Carnegie Hall, New York (completed)
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Dvorak String Quartet "American"
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Amy Beach Gaelic Symphony (composed)
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Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag
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WC Handy St. Louis Blues
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Cajun: (1st commercial recording)
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Florence Price Symphony No.1
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Copland El Salón México
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"God Bless America" (Kate Smith's Original Recording)
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Bluegrass Appears
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Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial
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Duke Ellington's "Cottontail"
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Broadway's 1st Golden Age (range)
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"This Land is Your Land" (Guthrie's Recording)
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“We Shall Overcome” (when adopted by the Civil Rights mvt)
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John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
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Folk Song U.S.A.: the 111 Best American Ballads (date published; also significance)
Alan Lomax travelled around America, discovering the folk songs of different regions and how they were connected -
Alan Freed
Year he coined Rock and Roll -
Bernstein West Side Story (Broadway premiere)
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Miles Davis' Kind of Blue
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Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album
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Beach Boys “Good Vibrations”
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Dolly Parton "Coat of Many Colors"
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Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"
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"Walk This Way" Video (Aerosmith and Run DMC)
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John Adams The Death of Klinghoffer
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James Horner Soundtrack for Titanic
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Miranda Hamilton (Premiere)