President Obama praised Paul McCartney for what he called his extraordinary contributions to American music and culture.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

What was the wonderful movie that had the Coen Brothers and all that great American folk music in it?

是哪一部经典的电影,由科恩兄弟执导的,那里面有众多美妙的美国乡村乐

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Now the master of syncopation, of course, in music was Scott Joplin, African American composer writing a lot around the area of St. Louis in the turn of the twentieth century.

说到使用切分音的大师,我们自然想到斯考特·乔普林,是位多产的美国黑人作曲家,二十世纪初居住在圣路易斯地区

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He IS American music." Most American children grow up hearing and singing some of Irving Berlin's songs.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Another composer,Jerome Kern, once said of Irving Berlin: "He has no place in American music.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

His dance-fitness program is based on salsa, meringue, and other forms of Latin American music.

VOA: special.2011.06.28

Add to that her twelve Academy of Country Music Awards and fifteen American Music Awards.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

He has said that he has another musical goal related to American music: to one day sing a song with country music star Dolly Parton.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

If anything defines American music, he says, it is a spirit of redefinition and reinvention.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

The aim is to share American music with the world and improve cross-cultural understanding.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

At that time, the famous American music writer George Gershwin was looking for someone to play a leading part in his new work, "Porgy and Bess."

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Another awards show, the American Music Awards, was first broadcast in nineteen seventy-three.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

Their work together was among the greatest in American music history.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

It also won eight Grammy Awards and seven American Music Awards.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Few of them had heard this kind of American music before.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Another famous guitar in American music also has a name.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

They were looking for people who at the same time were representatives of a much bigger powerful tradition in the case of African-American music, but at the same time were really singular in their ability to express that tradition."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

As part of the Department's American Music Abroad Program, the groups will travel to countries not often visited by American jazz musicians, in such regions as Africa,Asia,Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton three weeks ago authorized U.S.diplomatic missions to invite Iranians to the July 4th observances, which typically include outdoor hot dog roasts and American music, as a goodwill gesture.

VOA: standard.2009.06.24

Today we have the first of two programs about how the Lomax family helped keep American folk music from being lost.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Most experts agree that the traditional music and dance of American slaves played a big part in the development of ragtime.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Until that night, black singers of classical music had almost no chance of performing in major American opera houses and theaters.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

His music is a mix of American country and western, rock and the sounds of the Caribbean islands.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

The sound of American blues music would not be the same without the sad cry of the guitar.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we explore American folk music, the music of the people.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

But he and others say Motown will always be remembered for its historic influence on American popular music.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

In nineteen forty-two, the conductor Andre Kostelanetz asked Copland to write music about a great American,Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2011.08.14

When he heard Woody sing, Lomax knew he had found a true singer of American folk music.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

American popular music changed forever fifty years ago when Berry Gordy,Junior started a record company in Detroit,Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

Copland's music included parts of American folk songs and songs popular during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.06.21