The Back Porch Majority
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The Back Porch Majority was a 1960s American folk music group formed as a sort of "training ground" or spin-off for members of the popular folk ensemble The New Christy Minstrels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Back Porch Majority canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T814975 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: The Back Porch Majority Context triple: [The New Christy Minstrels, hasPart, The Back Porch Majority]
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A.
One-Third of a Nation
One-Third of a Nation is a 1938 Living Newspaper stage production that dramatized the urgent issues of urban housing and poverty in the United States during the Great Depression.
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B.
The American Way
The American Way is a 1939 Broadway patriotic pageant-play co-written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman that dramatizes the experiences of an immigrant family across generations in the United States.
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C.
Voices of Freedom
Voices of Freedom is a collection of antislavery poems by John Greenleaf Whittier that powerfully advocated for the abolitionist cause in 19th-century America.
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D.
Triumphant Democracy
Triumphant Democracy is a political and social treatise by industrialist Andrew Carnegie that praises American democratic institutions and contrasts them favorably with the British system of government.
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E.
The Biglow Papers
The Biglow Papers is a satirical collection of dialect poems and prose by James Russell Lowell that critiques the Mexican–American War and contemporary politics in mid-19th-century America.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Back Porch Majority Target entity description: The Back Porch Majority was a 1960s American folk music group formed as a sort of "training ground" or spin-off for members of the popular folk ensemble The New Christy Minstrels.
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A.
One-Third of a Nation
One-Third of a Nation is a 1938 Living Newspaper stage production that dramatized the urgent issues of urban housing and poverty in the United States during the Great Depression.
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B.
The American Way
The American Way is a 1939 Broadway patriotic pageant-play co-written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman that dramatizes the experiences of an immigrant family across generations in the United States.
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C.
Voices of Freedom
Voices of Freedom is a collection of antislavery poems by John Greenleaf Whittier that powerfully advocated for the abolitionist cause in 19th-century America.
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D.
Triumphant Democracy
Triumphant Democracy is a political and social treatise by industrialist Andrew Carnegie that praises American democratic institutions and contrasts them favorably with the British system of government.
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E.
The Biglow Papers
The Biglow Papers is a satirical collection of dialect poems and prose by James Russell Lowell that critiques the Mexican–American War and contemporary politics in mid-19th-century America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American folk music group
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American musician ⓘ musical ensemble ⓘ |
| activeInDecade | 1960s ⓘ |
| associatedAct |
The Back Porch Majority
self-linksurface differs
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The New Christy Minstrels ⓘ The New Christy Minstrels ⓘ |
| basedIn |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| describedAs |
spin-off of The New Christy Minstrels
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training ground for The New Christy Minstrels ⓘ |
| era | post-1950 popular music ⓘ |
| formedAs | offshoot of The New Christy Minstrels ⓘ |
| genre | folk music ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
folk repertoire
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group vocals ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember | Randy Sparks ⓘ |
| hasStyle |
acoustic instrumentation
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vocal harmony ⓘ |
| hasType |
folk ensemble
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vocal group ⓘ |
| notableFor | developing performers for The New Christy Minstrels ⓘ |
| partOfMovement | 1960s American folk revival ⓘ |
| primaryLanguage | English ⓘ |
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Subject: The Back Porch Majority Description of subject: The Back Porch Majority was a 1960s American folk music group formed as a sort of "training ground" or spin-off for members of the popular folk ensemble The New Christy Minstrels.
Referenced by (2)
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