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American Songbook

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"The poems in American Songbook are based on phrases from more than fifty 20th-century songs. The singers range from Memphis Minnie to Tupac Shakur, and songs from Louis Armstrong's hit "What a Wonderful World" to Hattie Ellis's "Desert Blues," a …

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"The poems in American Songbook are based on phrases from more than fifty 20th-century songs. The singers range from Memphis Minnie to Tupac Shakur, and songs from Louis Armstrong's hit "What a Wonderful World" to Hattie Ellis's "Desert Blues," a little-known Lomax prison recording. Many musical traditions inform the poems, including blues, jazz, gospel, country, folk, bluegrass, electric blues, R & B, rock, disco and hip hop."--

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""The poems in American Songbook are based on phrases from more than fifty 20th-century songs. The singers range from Memphis Minnie to Tupac Shakur, and songs from Louis Armstrong's hit …"

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