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| | NARA - Prologue - Prologue: Special Issue on Federal Records and African American History |
 | | There are filmed interviews of musicians, singers, and dancers; films on the lives of fl performers; and performances of gospel, jazz, blues, folk, and opera music. |
 | | Other fl musicians are seen performing in film series like "Jazz Casual" and "Jazz U.S.A.," a series of films about the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival that feature saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley; pianist Oscar Peterson; bassist Ray Brown; singers Dakota Staton, Ray Charles, and John Lee Hooker; and pianist and composer Eubie Blake. |
 | | Jadie David, shown doing a dangerous stunt, is one of only a few Hollywood stunt women, and Professor Eileen Southern, head of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Harvard University at the time, is also an authority on music of the Renaissance period. |
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