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The history of American music begins with American Indians, who were the original inhabitants of North America.
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aspirated attacks, immigrant musics, cumulative setting, social dance songs, container rattles, art music composers, fuging tunes, ofthe decade, radical composers, immigrant musicians, monster concerts, piano ragtime, classic ragtime, chance techniques, ethnic parades, music canon, regular singing, regional musics, tonal traditions, ragtime songs, dissonant counterpoint, bebop style, ofthe nineteenth century, fusion bands, ofthe twentieth century
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New York, United States, African American, Tin Pan Alley, New England, New Orleans, World War, American Indian, Civil War, North America, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miles Davis, Fletcher Henderson, Louis Armstrong, Northwest Coast, Ghost Dance, Philharmonic Society, Duke Ellington, Stephen Foster, Benny Goodman, Great Basin, Central Africa, Del Tredici, Eastern Woodlands
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