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Chapter 8 Pronunciation Assistant

Our World, Our Music presents music from many of our world's cultures.  Pronunciation of some of the music's titles or of composers' or performers' names may be unfamiliar.  The Pronunciation Assistant provides an opportunity to hear some of the terms and names from Chapter 8 spoken aloud.  Since some terms may have more than one correct pronunciation, your instructor's pronunciation may differ from that of The Pronunciation Assistant.

Click on a term or name to hear the pronunciation.  (Always allow content from ourworldourmusic.com)

aleatoric Fats Domino jitterbug ragtime
Appalachian Mountains Thomas Edison Scott Joplin rap
Louis Armstrong Duke Ellington B. B. King riff
Count Basie Stephen Foster Beyonce Knowles sampling
Beatles fox-trot Ladysmith Black Mombazo saxophonist
bebop Aretha Franklin Layla scat singing
Emile Berliner Dizzy Gillespie John Lennon Sedalia, Missouri
Bohemian Rhapsody Patrick Gilmore Lucille 2Pac Shakur
brothel Bennie Goodman mariachi Paul Simon
burlesque Grammy Paul McCartney Biggie Smalls
capitalist Grand Ole Opry Freddie Mercury Bessie Smith
Casablanca griot Glenn Miller John Philip Sousa
Johnny Cash grunge Charles Mingus sprechstimme
Ray Charles Bill Haley minstrel Ringo Starr
Charleston Hallelujah minstrelsy stereotypical
choreograph W. C. Handy Thelonius Monk William Grant Still
Eric Clapton Lil Hardin Bill Monroe Stille Nacht Heilig Nacht
George Clinton George Harrison Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Billy Strayhorn
Kurt Cobain Heebie Jeebies Nirvana Thriller
Nat King Cole Jimi Hendrix oompah totalitarian
combo Hip-hop operetta tsarist
Chick Corea HIStory Charlie Parker Tunisia
Bing Crosby Billie Holiday Parliament vaudeville
crypt Herman Hupfeld Carl Perkins Andy Warhol
dirge Michael Jackson Elvis Presley Bob Wills
Dixieland jazz psychedelic

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