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Email I sent to the major music programs, Itunes,(Apple) Mediaplayer (Microcoft), Songbird (Mozzella) ARE YOU ANTI AMERICAN? Your programers don't know how to classify American Music? You call it UNCASSIFIABLE? Are you crazy? Music Like: When the Saints go Marching In Dixie, The Yellow Rose of Texas The Stars & Stripes Forever Yankee Doodle Semper Fidelis Washington Post March Colonel Bogey March, Red River Valley American The Beautiful Over there God Bless American Amazing Grace Battle Hymn of the Republic You're a Grand ole Flag I've been Working on the Railroad Yankee Doddle Boy Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Tourism brochures tout the University of Illinois as home to the world's largest archive of original compositions and arrangements by John Philip Sousa, but for years more than four tons of music and memorabilia was stuffed into file drawers and cabinets, accessible to only to a few privileged researchers. Even students who rehearsed in the same building felt it was off limits, says curator Scott Schwartz. Now, with the 150th anniversary of Sousa's birth approaching, Schwartz is bringing the personal papers, music and other memorabilia from American's best-known bandmaster out of the dark for a Sousa Sesquicentennial...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) Tourism brochures tout the University of Illinois as home to the world's largest archive of original compositions and arrangements by John Philip Sousa, but for years more than four tons of music and memorabilia was stuffed into file drawers and cabinets, accessible to only to a few privileged researchers. Even students who rehearsed in the same building felt it was off limits, says curator Scott Schwartz. Now, with the 150th anniversary of Sousa's birth approaching, Schwartz is bringing the personal papers, music and other memorabilia from American's best-known bandmaster out of the dark for a Sousa Sesquicentennial...

More on Yahoo! • Lionel Hampton There was more than musical magic on stage that day in 1936 when Lionel Hampton joined Benny Goodman in a Manhattan ballroom — it was a breakthrough in American race relations. Hampton, a vibraphone virtuoso who died Saturday, broke a barrier that had kept black and white musicians from performing together in public. Through a six-decade career, he continued to build a name for himself as one of the greats in jazz history. "He was really a towering jazz figure," said saxophonist Sonny Rollins, who played with Hampton in the 1950s. "He really...