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| | Digital Library of Appalachia: Music |
 | | Included as well are such relative unknowns as the mouth bow with origins in Africa, Cherokee singing and dance music, Swiss-American singing and yodeling, Hungarian-American cymbalum playing, and the jug bandsound from the early 1900s comprised of a loose rural-urban mix of blues, hillbilly, and jazz. |
 | | Among the music's readily detectable influences are musical expressions arising from slavery, minstrel stage music, Civil War military music, and the dance music of Britain, Ireland and, in some instances, France and Germany. |
 | | The extensive radio program material dating from the late 1930s through the 1940s, provide data useful for studying the commercialization of the region's music and the extent to which urban music and entertainment forms were an influence in the region, especially prior to the advent of television. |
| www.aca-dla.org /cdm4/dlamusic.php (279 words) |
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