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- African American literature [r]: The body of literature produced in the USA by writers of African descent. [e]
- Blues [r]: A music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions (I-IV-V) and blue notes. [e]
- Bob Dylan [r]: American folk music singer-songwriter in the 1960's and 70's and later a member of the Travelling Wilburys. [e]
- Bossa nova [r]: Brazilian-originated musical style, influenced by jazz and samba. [e]
- Chanticleer (choir) [r]: American a capella vocal group specializing in Renaissance music. [e]
- Cy Coleman [r]: (1929–2004) American composer and musician who worked chiefly in the fields of jazz and musical theatre. [e]
- DC Youth Orchestra Program [r]: Add brief definition or description
- David Belove [r]: Add brief definition or description
- DePaul University [r]: A private university in Chicago, Illinois, USA, founded by the Congregation of the Mission in 1898. [e]
- Django web application framework [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ella Fitzgerald [r]: American singer known for pop standard and jazz idioms, particularly her ability in scat singing. [e]
- English spellings [r]: Lists and tables of English words, showing pronunciation. [e]
- Fiddle [r]: The violin, when played in folk music or jazz. [e]
- Frank Zappa [r]: (1940-1993) An American composer, guitarist, singer and satirist. [e]
- German Resistance [r]: Individuals and groups in Nazi Germany who opposed the regime of Adolf Hitler between 1933 and 1945. [e]
- Gilad Atzmon [r]: (June 9, 1963- ) A jazz musician and composer, writer and Palestinian solidarity activist based in London, who grew up in Israel, and regards himself as a Hebrew-speaking Palestinian. [e]
- Heavy metal (music) [r]: Heavy metal (often referred to simply as metal) is a popular genre of rock music that evolved in the late 1960s and early 1970s, from heavy blues and psychedelic rock. [e]
- Hip-hop [r]: American musical style and cultural movement emerging from the Bronx in New York City. [e]
- Jazz fusion [r]: A musical genre that developed in the late 1960s from a mixture of elements of jazz such as its focus on improvisation with the beats and heavily amplified electric instruments and electronic effects of rock. [e]
- Jennifer Love Hewitt [r]: (born 21 February 1979 in Waco, Texas, USA) An actress best known for her roles as Julie James in the film I Know What You Did Last Summer and, since 2005, Melinda Gordon on the hit CBS drama Ghost Whisperer. [e]
- John Coltrane [r]: American jazz musician who died in 1967. [e]
- John Steinbeck [r]: (1902–1968) One of the best known and most widely read American writers of the 20th century; wrote Grapes of Wrath. [e]
- Latin America [r]: The region of the Americas that shares a common tradition and historical heritage of European colonization, mostly Iberian. [e]
- Mastodon (band) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Melody Maker [r]: A British magazine dedicated to rock music, first published in 1926, and was for many years the oldest dedicated music publication in the world. [e]
- Mezzo TV [r]: A French television channel mainly devoted to classical music and jazz. [e]
- Miles Davis [r]: A major jazz musician, trumpeter, composer and bandleader (26 May 1926 - 28 September 1991). [e]
- Music [r]: The art of structuring time by combining sound and silence into rhythm and harmonies. [e]
- New York City [r]: The largest city in the United States of America and a world center of finance, commerce, communications, and the arts. [e]
- Opeth [r]: A heavy metal band from Sweden. [e]
- Pianoforte [r]: A musical instrument played by means of a keyboard, more commonly known as a piano. [e]
- Popular culture [r]: Commercialised folk culture that exists for the masses; opposite of high culture. [e]
- Reggae [r]: A term for a particular music style that emerged in Jamaica in the late 1960s. [e]
- Rock 'n' roll [r]: A form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, from rhythm and blues, country, and folk. [e]
- Ska [r]: Musical genre originating in Jamaica in the late 1950s combining Caribbean mento and calypso with jazz and rhythm and blues. [e]
- Slavery [r]: A social system in which people have legal rights of property ownership over others. [e]
- Strasbourg [r]: Capital of Alsace in France. [e]
- Syncopation [r]: A variety of rhythms which are in some way unexpected in that they deviate from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter. [e]
- T.S. Eliot [r]: (1888-1965) British-American 20th century poet who wrote The Waste Land and Four Quartets. [e]
- The Swingle Singers [r]: A vocal group formed in Paris, France with Ward Swingle, Anne Germain, Jeanette Baucomont, and Jean Cussac. [e]
- Thelonious Monk [r]: (10 October 1917 – 17 February 1982) American jazz pianist and composer who had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire. [e]
- Waltz [r]: A melody played with three beats per bar, usually in 3/4 or 3/8 time. [e]
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [r]: (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) Austrian-born composer of the Classical era, who composed over six hundred works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. [e]
- Yoni Rechter [r]: An Israeli musician, composer, and singer. [e]
