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currentmusicology-5391	Wald, Gayle	“It’s Awfully Important to Listen”: Ella Jenkins and Musical Multiculturalism	2019	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10030	416	54	It cemented the reputation of Jenkins, then in her early seventies, as the most prolific and influential American children’s musician of the late twentieth century, and spurred the release of a follow-up, More Multicultural Children’s Songs from Ella Jenkins, in 2014. Rhythm was an early preoccupation of Jenkins, pursued through an in- terest in the theatrics of entertainers Danny Kaye and Cab Calloway, the latter of whom she saw perform at Chicago’s Regal Theater, and a passion for table tennis (she beat out a white competitor to win the 1948 women’s Chicagoland championship; see “Ella Jenkins. . .” 1948).	cache/currentmusicology-5391.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5391.txt