21.   At Nonesuch she brought attention to areas of music neglected by the major labels, particularly contemporary music and American vernacular music.

22.   Atkins was regarded as possibly the consummate pop professional in American music.

23.   Before the Beatles, pop audiences in the United States paid little attention to British rock, writing it off as a second-rate imitation of American music.

24.   Besides singing more frequently in the United States, she has begun exploring American music.

25.   Bern, the offspring of artistically inclined Eastern European immigrants who settled in Iowa, makes the kind of American music that radio could use.

26.   Bernstein brought to Mahler lasting public recognition and to American music the wider audiences sought by his mentor Serge Koussevitzky.

27.   Bob Dylan, no idle student of the roots of American music himself, has always regarded Cash with awe.

28.   -- Live is a Pennsylvania quartet that plays alternative American music.

29.   A band that includes electric guitars is bound to evoke images of American popular music, the materials of which Andriessen wholeheartedly embraces and transforms.

30.   A similar process has been going on in American academic music departments in the last decade, as the ideology of Serialism has lost its stranglehold.