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| An American oral singing tradition featuring rotating leaders and raw, direct singing |
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| A system in which pitches in the scale are associated with particular syllables, do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti |
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| American Lute with a circular resonator |
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| European Lute Chordophone introduced to the Southwest of America by the Spanish |
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| Guitar played by holding it horizontally on the lap, players tune the strings to pitches of a single triad so that chords can be slid up and down |
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| Electronically amplified instrument in which the pitch can be altered both through a system of foot pedals and by sliding a metal bar on the fingerboard |
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| Plucked or strummed zither with frets over a curved hourglass-shaped resonator |
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| European-American zither with dampers that create chords |
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| Vigorous group dances featuring elaborate instrumental figurations that evolved from English and Irish reels |
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| Early country music ensemble that recorded over 300 songs and sold millions of recordings between 1927 and 1943 |
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| Consists of a banjo, guitar, fiddle, and bass, and plays traditional dance tunes and accompanies singers |
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| Hollywood movie stars who sang in small vocal ensembles dressed as Cowboys |
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| A fusion of country and big band jazz originating in Texas |
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| Genre from Texas that features the Pedal Steel Guitar |
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| Formed the band the Bluegrass Boys, which invented the Bluegrass style |
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| Banjo player who co-led the Foggy Mountain Boys bluegrass band |
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| Composer of "This Land is Your Land" |
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| Composer of "If I had a Hammer" |
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