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- Music (16462 bytes)
20: ...ere exist solo vocal and instrumental genres with free, improvisational rhythms with no regular pulse;...
38: ...lude a mixture of both, and performance may range from improvised solo playing for one's enjoyment to ...
43: ... is produced as [[sheet music]]. To perform music from notation requires an understanding of both the ...
49: ...nventions and even "fully composed" includes some freely chosen material. See also, [[precompositional...
51: ...may create musical sounds, examples of this range from wind chimes, through computer programs which se... - Banjo (6143 bytes)
4: ... though recent research suggests that it may come from a Senegambian term for the bamboo stick used fo...
8: ... tube in the neck where it exits near the fifth [[fret]].
10: ... metal, although [[nylon]] and gut used on simple fretless banjos and by players of the classical banj...
12: ...ed an instrument similar to the banjar played by African-Americans in the American south, but at the s...
14: ...s and is used in various forms of [[music]]. In [[bluegrass music]], which uses the five-string resonator ban... - Kentucky (15076 bytes)
8: Nickname = Bluegrass State |
9: Capital = [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]] |
41: ...h the [[Cumberland Gap]], and was the first major frontier developed west of the [[Appalachian Mountai...
45: ...to the state. A different version of the name is from the Indian word meaning "dark and bloody huntin...
48: ... [[capital]] of Kentucky is [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]] and its governor is [[Ernie Fletcher]] (... - Guitar (36953 bytes)
2: ...es [[steel]] strings and more guide dots on the [[fretboard]].]]
6: ... '''neck'''. Typically, a '''headstock''' extends from the neck for tuning.
16: ..., is a combination of two words. "''Guit''" comes from the Sanskrit word ''"Sangeeta"'' meaning "music...
17: ...n in Origin, and so are the ancestral instruments from which the Westernized guitar derrived. The word...
18: ...n of the sitar. One theory states that it evolved from a purely Indian instrument called the ''Chitra ... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
33: ...band]], [[bebop]], [[hard bop]], [[cool jazz]], [[free jazz]], [[jazz fusion]] and [[smooth jazz]].
37: ...h degree of technical skill and musical knowledge from the performers.
39: ...rm today is a widely varied one, using influences from all of the past styles, although the root of mo...
45: ... the early 1960s rhythm 'n' blues took influences from [[gospel music|gospel]] and [[rock and roll]] a...
49: ...[1950s]]. Its earliest form, rock and roll, arose from multiple genres in the late [[1940s]], most imp... - List of genres of country (522 bytes)
17: *[[Bluegrass music|Bluegrass]]
18: **[[New traditional bluegrass]]
19: **[[Old-time bluegrass]]/[[Appalachian bluegrass]]
20: **[[Progressive bluegrass]] - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
6: ...of [[West Africa]]n [[slavery|slave]]s. These [[African American]]s played a variety of instruments, ...
8: ...], [[music of Russia|Russian]], [[music of France|French]], [[music of Germany|German]], [[music of It...
10: ...innings of [[ragtime]] and [[minstrel]] songs, [[African American music]] has remained at the heart of...
12: ...ck|punk]] and [[funk]]. In the [[1970s]], urban African Americans in [[New York City]] began performi...
19: ... a melting pot of different peoples. Immigration from [[China]] began in large numbers in the 19th ce... - Music of the United States (1940s and 50s) (18910 bytes)
6: ...Europe]] and the rest of the world. This stemmed from a revival of [[hillbilly music]] early in the d...
10: ... and social activism. [[Psychedelic rock]] arose from this subculture, which opposed the [[Vietnam Wa...
18: ...black vocalists like [[Little Richard]] ("[[Tutti Frutti]]"), [[Chuck Berry]] ("[[Johnny B. Goode]]"),...
30: ...ians unable to maintain their hipness, both faded from mass consciousness. The mid-[[1960s]] saw the ...
38: ...'', recorded with the [[Angelic Choir of Nutley]] from [[New Jersey]]. Six years later he founded the... - Pat Nixon (3962 bytes)
1: [[Image:Pat nixon.jpg|right|frame|Pat Nixon]]
2: ...d Nixon]] and [[First Lady of the United States]] from 1969-1974.
5: .... Patrick]]'s babe in the morn" when he came home from the mines before dawn.
12: ...age:Pat and Richard Nixon exit US plane.jpg|right|frame|Pat and Richard Nixon on the political trail t...
13: ...nd there she met Richard Nixon, who had come home from law school at Duke University to establish a pr... - Washington, D.C. (43465 bytes)
5: ...ody. The land forming the original District came from the states of Virginia and Maryland, but only t...
7: ...institutions. All of this has made Washington the frequent focal point of massive political demonstrat...
48: ...h their [[constituent]]s by distancing themselves from the negative image of an out-of-touch centraliz...
56: ...nce exempt from local property taxes, the city is frequently cash-strapped. Public services in the ci...
81: ... with work contributed by such noted figures as [[Frederick Law Olmsted]] and [[Daniel Burnham]]. Howe...
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