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The 42 pages that link to African American music, each with the reason it gives.

• Country musicRelated: Black musical traditions and musicians shaped country instruments, repertoire, and performance.

• Langston HughesRelated: His poetry carried Black musical idioms into print and performance.

• American classical musicRelated: African American musical practices shaped American composers’ rhythms, forms, and ideas of national sound.

• American folk musicRelated: African American musical forms and musicians shaped folk song, instrumentation, rhythm, and performance.

• Appalachian musicRelated: African American musicians and styles helped shape the region’s banjo music and dance repertoire.

• Blackface minstrelsyRelated: Minstrel performance appropriated and distorted Black musical forms even as Black artists shaped American music.

• Music of the United StatesRelated: African diasporic musical practices shaped blues, jazz, gospel, and many later American styles.

• Moms MableyRelated: Her performance career intersected with Black musical venues and entertainment circuits.

• Jingle BellsRelated: Questions about the song’s early performance context intersect with the racial history of American popular music.