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11 unusual facts about Music of the United States


A Christmas Duel

"A Christmas Duel" is a special Christmas duet recorded by the Swedish rock band The Hives and American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper.

Ball and Biscuit

"Ball and Biscuit" is the eighth track on the album Elephant by American alternative rock band The White Stripes.

Gitte Hænning

Gitte was among the most popular Schlager (hit music) singers of the post-war era, and continued to be popular in Germany and Denmark even as American music increasingly dominated the airwaves in the 1970s.

Guitar Romantic

Guitar Romantic is the first and only studio album by American punk rock band The Exploding Hearts, released both by Dirtnap Records and Screaming Apple Records in 2003.

Hiawatha Music Festival

The Hiawatha Traditional Music Festival in Marquette, Michigan is held each year during the next-to-last full weekend of July and features traditional, acoustic, American music.

Nick Barraclough

Nick Barraclough (born 1951 in Cambridge) is a British radio producer, presenter, musician and writer, who is best known for hosting shows related to specialist American music.

On the Mall

"On the Mall" is a famous march composed by American bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman (1878–1956).

Sonny and his Wild Cows

This band played (and is still playing) almost all kinds of American music of the 1940s and 50's, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, rock-a-billy, swing, country and western.

Stephen Foster Memorial

The Stephen Foster Memorial serves as the home for the Society for American Music and the University of Pittsburgh's Center for American's Music which encompasses a research library, archive and museum dedicated to expanding and documenting knowledge of American music and its role in American life.

The Crows

The Crows were an American R & B singing group who achieved commercial success in the 1950s.

Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau

Consequently, one finds a great deal of interest in American musical life and the American music trade.


The Rough Guide to Blues Revival

Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, the album contains two discs: an overview of the contemporary scene on Disc One, primarily featuring American artists, and a "bonus" Disc Two highlighting Malian Samba Touré (a reference to the commonalities between the American Blues and West African music).

There Must Be Somebody Else

There Must Be Somebody Else is a 1927 American popular song written by Maceo Pinkard, Archie Gottler and Sidney Clare.