This year's additions to the eighth yearly National Recording Registry include jazz and rock songs, rap music and a classic motion picture theme song.

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He performed on Guru's 1993 jazz-rap album, "Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1, " and his recordings were sampled on more than 100 hip-hop songs by such performers as Black Moon, Nas, Ludacris and A Tribe Called Quest.

WSJ: Innovative jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd dies at 80

The televised presentations target pop, country, urban, rock, and rap categories, leaving the jazz, gospel, classical, Latin and other categories to the pre-show.

CNN: The Grammy show you don't see

In the 1970s, musicians began mixing flamenco with jazz, rock, blues, rap and other genres.

BBC: I came here to learn flamenco