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early Japanese popular music/ryukoka/enka/Kayōkyoku: Shinpei Nakayama Sumako Matsui Chiyako Sato Yoshie Fujiwara Ichiro Fujiyama Ichimaru...

early modern French popular music/chanson: edit piaf frehel damia Jacques brel George brassens Charles Aznavour ye-ye: serge gainsbourgh...

early country music early country: jimmy Rodgers the carter family 1930s-1940s country/western swing: the Shelton brothers merle travis...

rock and roll/rockabilly/ early surf rock/early instrumental rock and roll (late 40s-early 60s): louis Jordan ruth brown lavern baker...

music hall: George formby gracie fields Flanagan and allen kate carney marie Lloyd Charles coborn harry champion albert chevalier vesta...

early electric blues: john lee hooker lightning hopkins t. bone walker muddy waters howlin wolf willie Dixon little walter sonny boy...

tin pan alley songwriters and composers: George Gershwin harry warren Vincent Youmans al Sherman Harold arlen irving berlin George m. cohan Dorothy fields scott Joplin  fats waller broadway musicals/Hollywood show tunes composers: Irving Berlin Frederick Loewe Victor Herbert Harry Warren Harold Arlen Jerome Kern George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Oscar Hammerstein Johnny Mercer Dorothy Fields Hoagy Carmichael Cole Porter big band jazz/swing: loui

Colombia Smithsonian folkways album: -Music of Colombia cumbia: José Barros Armando Hernandez Lisandro meza toto la momposina alci Acosta...

general Smithsonian folkways albums: -Caribbean dances -Calypso and Meringues nonsuch albums: -an island carnival (music of the west...

Mexican/Tejano Tejano musicians: beto villa isidaro lopez pedro bugari balde Gonzalez mike Ornelas eugenio Gutierrez chris sandoval Dario...