41.   But there is something under those rolling prairies that makes a festival of American music, as well as many other things, possible in Duncan.

42.   Can anyone doubt that American pop music is the most powerful musical idiom in the world?

43.   By recycling black American music to white Americans, often improving it in the process, Jagger has become part of Main Street.

44.   Charles Ives is the father of American music.

45.   Charlie and His Orchestra changed the lyrics of plagiarized American music into propaganda.

46.   Chief among them was Bert Williams, today perhaps the least honored genius in American music.

47.   China agreed last year to stop its piracy of American music, movies and software, but then, apparently, kept turning them out anyway.

48.   Crosby was the only singer in American popular music to enjoy a classical education.

49.   Discover the heart of American music by logging on to a Public Television Service Web site that features original compositions from around the country.

50.   Early American choral music had its roots in the English Reformation and its congregational singing of psalms and hymns.