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seated man playing guitar

Two Afro-American men, outside of stable, with Kazoos in their mouths, one of them seated on haybale and playing guitar, the other playing homemade string instrument, Washington, D.C. or New York City. About this image

AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC

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  • image available soonMakanda Ken McIntyre Collection
    Music of the renowned African-American composer and instrumentalist.

  • close up of Winslow Gordononline collection iconfinding aidFolk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection, 1922-1932
    Recordings of American folksongs collected by Robert Winslow Gordon in the 1920s and early 1930s.

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