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Turning The Tables: Celebrating Eight Women Who Invented American Popular Music

This year, Turning the Tables focused on music's "founding mothers." Watch the season-opening concert at Lincoln Center Out of Doors, featuring Rhiannon Giddens, Lizz Wright and more.
Turning the Tables at Lincoln Center

Whose faces would you put on a musical Mount Rushmore? The question amounts to a facile parlor game, but for the team behind the annual series Turning the Tables –an annual collaboration between NPR Music and Lincoln Center dedicated

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