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American folk songs
Dixie (song)Ohio-born Daniel Decatur Emmett claimed the copyright on Dixie in 1860. Despite that, by 1908, four years after Emmett's death, no fewer than 37 people had…
Battle Hymn of the RepublicThe melody began as a revivalist hymn called Say Brothers will you Meet Us in the late 1700s. Camp meeting singers passed this tune orally across the United…
John Brown's BodyThe melody known today as John Brown's Body emerged from the American camp meeting movement of the late 18th and early 19th century.