Just One Song More

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Europe’s Society orchestra, “Down Home Rag” (1913)

On the Liberational Quality of Ragtime, the Multiplicity of Frenchiness, and the Ideologies of Folk

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Lovey’s Trinidad String Band, “Mango Vert”

[Download 1912]

On the Catholicity of African Identity, the Discomfort of Masquerade, and the Motion of Bodies.

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Sophie Tucker, “Some of These Days”

[Download 1911]

On the wide applicability of Semitism, the riches of Fairyland, and the omnivorousness of Appalachia.

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Nora Bayes, “Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?”

[Download 1910]

On the Humors of Immigrants, the Wickedness of Dance Tunes, and the Infinite Corruptibility of Urbanites

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Ada Jones & Billy Murray “Shine On, Harvest Moon”

On the Clumsiness of Sentiment, the Destabilization of the Conventions, and the Striving Pinnacle of Getting Paid.

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