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          As we prepare for the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Freedom Sounds festival, we look back into our archives of African American music from the Smithsonian Folklife Festival and Smithsonian Folkways.

          A version of this article originally appeared in the 2011 Folklife Festival program book.

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        4. Here's a brief introductory list (presented in no particular order) of informative and readable books about general blues history, styles, and people.
        5. Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta Robert Palmer ; Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues Elijah Wald.

          6. Author Mark Puryear curated the Rhythm and Blues program that year and is now curator for Freedom Sounds.

          In 1964 The Dixie Cups, a female vocal trio from New Orleans, crooned out a cheerful version of “Chapel of Love” and knocked the Beatles from their number one spot on the pop charts.

          A year later, the trio released “lko lko,” a song first released in 1954 by James “Sugar Boy” Crawford as “Jock-A-Mo,” whose lyrics recount the meeting of two groups of Mardi Gras Indians. Since then, this song has been covered by artists from the Grateful Dead to Cyndi Lauper, and continues to mov