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Performing arts pages with videographic documentation

  • Louis ArmstrongLouis Daniel Armstrong was born in New Orleans on the 4th of August 1901. He grew up in a rough neighborhood known as The Battlefield on Rampart Street.
  • Miles DavisMiles Dewey Davis III arrived in the world on the 26th of May 1926, born into an affluent African-American family in Alton, Illinois.
  • Music of the United StatesNative Americans played the first music in what is now the United States, using a wide variety of styles and techniques.