51.   Epstein creates an engaging portrait of this romantic figure in American music.

52.   For an instrumental background, Marsalis, who conducts the piece and solos on trumpet a bit, has compiled all the techniques that have informed black American music.

53.   For Pross, one of the few American music executives actively looking for Japanese bands, running around to record stores and labels in Tokyo feels like striking oil.

54.   George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, and Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein all shaped American popular music in their own ways.

55.   Gardier said her band is especially influenced by American music forms.

56.   George Bozwick, the head of the American music collection, is a composer who also plays the blues harmonica.

57.   Has any artist in the history of American music had more recordings reissued and repackaged than Duke Ellington?

58.   Hashem now has a full-time job broadcasting at the agency, and her programs on American music and American life are heard throughout Bangladesh.

59.   He added so much to the history of American music.

60.   He had an interest in contemporary American music, as well, and mounted several modern operas at Mannes.