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(the music of the united states reflects the country’s multi-ethnic population through a diverse array of styles)
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(it is a mixture of music influenced by West African, Irish, Scottish, Mexican, and Cuban music traditions among others)
(the country’s most internationally renowned genres are jazz, blues, country, bluegrass, rock, rhythm and blues, ragtime, hip hop, barbershop, pop, experimental, techno, house, dance, boogaloo, salsa, and ‘rock and roll’)
(the ‘United States’ has the world’s largest music market with a total retail value of 4,898.3 million dollars in 2014, and its music is heard around the world)
(since the beginning of the 20th century, some forms of American popular music have gained a near global audience)
(‘Native Americans’ were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music)
(beginning in the 17th century, immigrants from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Germany, and France began arriving in large numbers, bringing with them new styles and instruments)
(african slaves brought musical traditions, and each subsequent wave of immigrants contributed to a ‘melting pot’)
(much of modern popular music can trace its roots to the emergence in the late 19th century of African American blues and the growth of gospel music in the 1920s)
(the African-American basis for popular music used elements derived from European and indigenous musics)
(there are also strong African roots in the music tradition of the original white settlers, such as country and ‘bluegrass’)
(the ‘United States’ has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of the Ukrainian, Irish, Scottish, Polish, Hispanic, and Jewish communities, among others)
(many American cities and towns have vibrant music scenes which, in turn, support a number of regional musical styles)
(along with musical centers such as Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Nashville, Austin, and Los Angeles, many smaller cities such as Asbury Park, New Jersey have produced distinctive styles of music)
(the ‘cajun’ + ‘creole’ traditions in Louisiana music, the folk and popular styles of Hawaiian music, and the bluegrass and old time music of the Southeastern states are a few examples of diversity in ‘american music’)
(‘modern music’ is heavily influenced by previous + present ‘african-american music genres’)
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*THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK*
The Great American Songbook, also known as “American Standards”, is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century. Although several collections of music have been published under the title, it does not refer to any actual book or specific list of songs, but to a loosely defined set including the most popular and enduring songs from the 1920s to the 1950s that were created for Broadway theatre, musical theatre, and Hollywood musical film. They have been recorded and performed by a large number and wide range of singers, instrumental bands, and jazz musicians.
The Great American Songbook comprises standards by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, and Richard Rodgers, among others.
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(although the songs have never gone out of style among traditional and jazz singers and musicians, a renewed popular interest in the Great American Songbook beginning in the 1970s has led a growing number of rock and pop singers to take an interest and issue recordings of them)
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