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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
John Philip Sousa
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John Philip Sousa
Age: 77 †
Born: 1854
Born: November 6
Died: 1932
Died: March 6
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