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Black Gospel music
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Black Royalty in Europe: ‘If Hitler had been against jazz, jazz had to be good’
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Black Royalty in Europe: How Europe became a centre for jazz as countercultural avant-gard…
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February begins, Italy sings – 72 years of the Sanremo Music Festival
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Siw Malmkvist, Swedish singer and actress
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Eartha Kitt: singer, actor and activist
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Miriam Makeba - Mama Africa
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Jenny Lind: the Swedish Nightingale
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Monica Zetterlund, jazz singer and Swedish Sensation
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Austrian Composers in Exile
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Autographs, operas and tubas: Richard Wagner on Europeana
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César Franck
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Dive into Europeana to listen to the sea
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The sounds of Asia and Madagascar at the 1931 French colonial Exhibition
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Small-screen smiles for World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
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The Harry Orvomaa collection of Jewish recordings
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Stories of a seducer – Mozart, the myth of Don Juan and his literary impact
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The hurdy-gurdy in Schubert's "Winterreise"
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Classical composers, music manuscripts and correspondence
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'We’d music sweet to shake our feet': festivals and fair-days in the Irish music tradition
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Field recording Irish traditional music
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The importance of songs during World War One
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Maestro Verdi - most performed composer ever
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Jigs and reels: exploring the Irish Traditional Music Archive