America got to know the instrument through its love of marching bands, and soon vernacular music came to like the saxophone's native vulgarity.

A performer of vernacular American music at its best, he shows how the music taken from a small community can have relevance in the outside world.

The beat, as in so much of American vernacular music, was irresistible.

Everybody always says Broadway owes a debt to ragtime and the black vernacular music.

One is that the new vernacular music proved far more appealing to vast numbers of listeners.

But each found personal and original ways to incorporate elements of folk song and vernacular music into their works.

John Hammond, their producer, laid out what was the fashionable narrative of black American vernacular music.

Sometimes opera composers must invent vernacular music to suit their purposes.

It is one of his first major works to incorporate American vernacular music within a classical symphonic tradition.

The set, informal and potentially cloying, was proof that vernacular music can be dressed up in all sorts of different ways.