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Sony Music Entertainment is one of the largest recorded music companies in the world, headquartered in NYC with offices worldwide. Labels include Burgundy Victor, Columbia, Epic, J-Records, Legacy, Masterworks, Nashville, Provident, RCA Records, Sony Latin, Zomba/Jive.
Sustained sounding of one or several tones for harmonic support, a common feature of some folk musics.
Industry:Music
Subgenre of rock in which rhymed lyrics are spoken over rhythm tracks; developed by African-Americans in the 1970s and widely disseminated in the 1980s and 1990s.
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African-American form of secular folk music, related to jazz, that is based on a simple, repetitive poetic-musical structure.
Industry:Music
Early folk instrument that resembles the psaltery; its strings are struck with hammers instead of being plucked.
Industry:Music
Hand-held frame drum with a single goatskin head; used in Irish traditional music.
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument consisting of tuned metal bars, usually struck with a mallet.
Industry:Music
Percussion instrument consisting of a hemispheric copper shell with a head of plastic or calfskin, held in place by a metal ring and played with soft or hard padded sticks. A pedal mechanism changes the tension of the head, and with it the pitch. Also kettledrums.
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