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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 hank Williams woody Guthrie ernest tubb bill Monroe jimmy wakely cliff burner hank thompson red foley bob wills gene autry roy acuff Harlan howard Tex williams 1940s-1950s country/honky tonk: hank Williams louvin brothers patsy cline chet atkins johnny cash June carter cash Maybelle carter lefty frizzell ray price les paul Red foley don Gibso

rock and roll/rockabilly/ early surf rock/early instrumental rock and roll (late 40s-early 60s): louis Jordan ruth brown lavern baker johnny Otis tiny bradshaw Lieber and stoller little willie littlefield big mama thornton hank ballard and the midnighters big joe turner bill haley and his comets carl perkins Earl Palmer little Richard bo diddley fats domino jerry lee lewis elvis presley scotty moore johnny burnette trio chuck berry screaming jay Hawkins larry williams gene vi

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 Jimmy reed little walter sonny boy Williamson ii guitar slim buddy guy b.b. king freddy king albert king magic sam Lowell fulson Fred below Otis spann Big bill broonzy St Louis jimmy oden early r&b / jump blues: luis Jordan ruth brown lavern baker amos milburn tiny bradshaw Roy Brown Billy Wright Wynonie Harris paul Williams james witherspoon Dave Bartholomew Big Joe T

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 pastor lopez los corraleros de majagual Oscar agudelo Gustavo quintero los hispanos La sonora dinamita Gustavo quinetro Adolfo aicardi Chicos de barrio Aniceto molina Los gaiteros de san jacinto vallenato: musicians: Guillermo Buitrago Alejo Duran Enrique Díaz Emiliano Zuleta Luis Enrique Martínez Abel Antonio Villa Lorenzo Morales Diomedes

general Smithsonian folkways albums: -Caribbean dances -Calypso and Meringues nonsuch albums: -an island carnival (music of the west indies) -Caribbean island music, songs and dances of Haiti, the Dominican republic & Jamaica saint lucia Smithsonian folkways album: -music of saint lucia bermuda   Smithsonian folkways album: -esso steel band of bermuda- Bermuda honeymoon Dominican republic  merengue/bachata: Julio Alberto Hernández Juan Espínola of La Vega Juan Francisco Garcí

Mexican/Tejano Tejano musicians: beto villa isidaro lopez pedro bugari balde Gonzalez mike Ornelas eugenio Gutierrez chris sandoval Dario perez balde Gonzalez isidro lopez Carmen y Laura Las Abajeñas Hermanas Fraga Rosita Fernández Hermanas Segovia delia y laura Rosita y laura hermanas Guerrero chelo silva las rancheritas Lydia Mendoza hermanas Mendoza Narciso Martinez Roberto rodriguez y clemente Mendoza r. de leon & l. villalobos estanislado Salazar & hermanos mier paz flor