31.   Add it all up, and in many ways Jazzfest is the best buffet ever for those who want a big, tangy meal of American music.

32.   Adams was in many ways an anachronism, a singer who could sing virtually all the prewar styles of American music.

33.   After he graduated from Grinnell College with a degree in American music, he returned to New York to write about music and to run jazz clubs.

34.   Both sides denounced the piracy of American music, movies, and computer software in China, and other unfair trade practices.

35.   But a devoted core of citizens in this small town has big dreams for an ongoing annual festival focusing on American music.

36.   But American classical music is not necessarily a destination anymore.

37.   But central to all these explorations has been a passion for black American music, an allegiance to traditional Irish music and a deep, rounded, booming voice.

38.   But Foss is less sanguine about the outlook for American music.

39.   But in their own way, they have become both a minor phenomenon and a resonant window onto one of the richest veins in American music these days.

40.   But it is very much the sound of the moment elsewhere in American popular music.