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Music of the Sioux and the Navajo
1949
Cult Music of Cuba
1949
Hawaiian Drum Dance Chants: Sounds of Power in Time
1989
CARIBEana
1949
Every Tone a Testimony
2001
The Original James P. Johnson: 1942-1945, Piano Solos
James P. Johnson
1996
Classic Delta and Deep South Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
2018
Cajun Honky Tonk: The Khoury Recordings, Vol. 2
2013
Zodiac Suite
Mary Lou Williams
1995
Classic Piedmont Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
2017
The Haitian Drummer
Tiroro
1948
There is No Eye: Music for Photographs
2001
Classic Protest Songs from Smithsonian Folkways
2009
Navajo Songs
1992
The Folkways Years, 1944-1963
Sonny Terry
1991
Calypso in New York
Lord Invader
2000
Zydeco, Vol. 1: The Early Years 1949-62
1989
Classic African American Gospel from Smithsonian Folkways
2008
The Fiddle King of Cajun Swing
Harry Choates
1993
Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
2003
Ballads and Corridos 1949-1975
2009
Classic Piano Blues from Smithsonian Folkways
2008
Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Vols. 1 and 2
2014
Back Roads to Cold Mountain
2004
Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Folkways
2013
All about Square Dances with Calls and Instrumentals
Piute Pete, Caller and his Country Cousins
1949
Free and Equal Blues
Josh White
1998
Smithsonian Folkways American Roots Collection
1996
Classic Blues from Smithsonian Folkways, Vol. 2
2003
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Peyote Cult Song
Philip Broken Leg with gourd rattle, water-drum
1949
Lucumi Song
Two Abakwa society male Lucumi singers with iya drum and atchere
1949
Song to Legba and Yemaya
Two male singers with iya drum and atchere
1949
Corn Grinding Song
Female Navajo singer, basket-drum player
1949
Djuka Drums
Three drummers
1949
Tiroro's drums
Ti Roro
1949
Jungle Drums
James P. Johnson
2001
Jungle Drums
James P. Johnson
1996
Lucumi Drums
Three Lucumi drummers
1949
How He Delivered Me
Juanita Johnson and The Gospel Tones
2001
Sleeping with the Devil
Johnny Young and Walter Horton
2018
Leo
Mary Lou Williams
1995
Sha Meon Waltz
Cleveland Crochet
2013
Omaha Dance
Benjamin Sitting Up, Ellis Chips, drummers, dancers with bells
1949
Song of Happiness
Fort Wingate Indian School: Mr. I.D. Taubeneck's demonstration class
1949
Jennings Two Step
Ernest Tipidoe French Band
2013
Confusion
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry
2017
Squaw Dance
Ambrose, Chester, and Tom Roanhorse
1949
Chere Ami Waltz
Musical Four Plus One
2013
Song to Chango
Male chorus, drummers
1949
Corn Grinding Song
Joe Lee and unidentified man, Lukachukai, Arizona
1992
I Can't Be Satisfied
Muddy Waters
2001
Strange Fruit
Brother John Sellers
2009
Dream
John Littlejohn
2018
Best Drummer in Haiti
Tiroro
1948
Dark Road
Sonny Terry
1991
Clifton's Blues
Clifton Chenier
1989
Auf Weidersehen
Lord Invader and his Calypso Group
2000
Abakwa Song
Male Abakwa chorus and drummers from Guanabacoa
1949
Hackberry Hop
Harry Choates
1993
We Praise Your Holy Name
The Mississippi Mass Choir
2008
Brown Girl in the Ring
Lord Invader
2000
Scorpio
Mary Lou Williams
1995
Scrambled Eggs
Sandy Austin
2013
Oh Baby, You Don't Have to Go
The Chambers Brothers
2003
Corrido de Chessman
Valerio Longoria y su Conjunto
2009
Bayou Chico Waltz
Wilson Granger
2013
Hesitation Blues
James P. Johnson
2008
Cancer
Mary Lou Williams
1995
Honoring Song
Mixed Sioux singers, drummer
1949
Hathaway Two Step
Nathan Abshire
2013
Die Thälmann-Kolonne (The Thaelmann Column)
Ernst Busch and chorus
2014
Happy Land of Canaan
Lord Invader
2000
Boora Rhumba
Nathan Abshire
2013
Midnight Blues
Cleveland Crochet and His Hillbilly Ramblers
2013
Two Step de Kindergarden
Elise Deshotel
2013
Two Step de Avalon
Elise Deshotel
2013
Jim and John
Ed, Lonnie, and G.D. Young
2004
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