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Other Mix
3/25/2011
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Other Mix
3/23/2011
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Genres & History
3/22/2011
Ska never fades away - it evolves in new directions with each passing generation. By the '90s, a third wave had taken hold when a fresh crop of American - mostly Californian - kids who came up on the h …
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Genres & History
3/22/2011
Before reggae, ska was the sound of Jamaica. It was born in the '60s when a new breed of Jamaican visionaries turned American R&B inside out and spiced it up with an island flavor, giving the world a n …
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My Groove
3/22/2011
Bachelor pad music may have had its glory days in the '50s and '60s, but there are legions of lounge-lovers today, and a new generation dedicated to carrying the tiki torch into the future. No one's be …
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My Groove
3/22/2011
Bachelor-pad music encompasses an entire constellation of styles - lounge, exotica, space age, swing, and more. Its roots are in the post-WWII era, when hi-fi stereo systems became a status symbol for …
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Genres & History
3/22/2011
The claves. The timbales. The congas. The horns. Afro-Cuban music is more than a combination of instruments and sounds. It's more than the mixture of epochal rhythms from Africa and sinuous melodies fr …
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Genres & History
3/22/2011
Many folks' initial encounter with Afropop came via David Byrne or Paul Simon (or, for an earlier generation, via The Tokens' adaptation of "Wimoweh"). Not bad for a start, but it spurs the question, i …
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Artist Essentials
3/22/2011
In 1938, when Bill Monroe renamed his band the Blue Grass Boys, he changed the course of music history. Bluegrass was his innovation - a Southern-flavored cocktail of blues, gospel, country, and folk t …
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