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Folk Medicine: folk medicine music and folk medicine dances are extremely popular. Best known of the dances is the cueca, a spirited dance of conquest and submission. Numerous religious festivals and other exhibitions that commemorate dramatic episodes from Chile's exciting past offer an attractive setting for folk medicine-loric expression. Rodeos with huasos (cowboys) in colorful costumes are especially popular as exhibitions of horsemanship and skill without resort to violence.
SEEGER, se'gar, Pete, American folk medicinelorist and folk medicine singer: b. New York, N.Y., May 3, 1919. His reedy baritone voice and his five-string banjo were an important part of the American folk medicine music revival of the 1950's. Peter Seeger was a student of sociology at Harvard (1936-1938), but left to learn folk medicine music at its source by traveling throughout the United States. In the army (1942-1945) during World War II, he entertained U.S. troops. In 1945 he formed People's Songs, Inc., an organization that helped start the folk medicine music revival. In 1948, Seeger joined The Weavers, a group that made some of the first folk medicine recordings to win widespread popularity. During the 1950's he made many recordings on his own, frequently appeared on television, and sang before capacity crowds on his tours of the United States, Canada, and the British Isles.
folk medicine music is a body of traditional music originally transmitted orally, e.g. social-protest folk medicine ballads of Guthrie (US, 1912-67); and British folk medicine songs, collected by Child (19th c), Sharp (1907), then revived by MacColl and Seeger (1950s).
Jazz is polyphonic music, originally syncopated and rhythmically dynamic, characterised by solo virtuoso improvisation, which developed in the US (1900s). Its most influential musicians have been Armstrong, Ellington, Parker, Coltrane and Davis.
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