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The Puritans who settled in New England have been held up to posterity as haters of music, so that the dawn of America's musical heritage was long darkened by this sinister shadow.
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revival hymnody, tunebook compilers, fuging tunes, ragtime revival, evangelical hymnody, plantation hymns, blackface entertainers, classic ragtime, piano rags, parlor songs, native pioneers, ethnic recordings, brochure notes, glass harmonica, revival hymns, jubilee songs
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New York, United States, New England, New Orleans, Stephen Foster, Lowell Mason, Civil War, North America, San Francisco, Thomas Hastings, Henry Cowell, Francis Hopkinson, Regular Singing, Scott Joplin, Cotton Mather, Roy Harris, William Billings, John Cage, South Carolina, American Indian, The Southern Harmony, Yankee Doodle, Anthony Philip Heinrich, Grecian Bend, Tin Pan Alley
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