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Torres-García, Joaquín

(Encyclopedia)Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874–1949, Uruguayan painter, b. Montevideo, considered the father of Latin American constructivism. In 1894 his family moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he studied at the A...

band

(Encyclopedia)band, in music, a group of musicians playing principally on wind and percussion instruments, usually outdoors. Prior to the 18th cent., the term band was frequently applied in a generic sense to cover...

jazz

(Encyclopedia)jazz, the most significant form of musical expression of African-American culture and arguably the most outstanding contribution the United States has made to the art of music. ...

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