Article: Brooks, Carey are big winners at American Music Awards.(NEWS)

To sort of paraphrase the Rev. Martin Luther King's dream as it applies to music, there would be a world in which rock co-existed with rap and country and soul and pop. That was the vision of popular music as presented on the 27th annual American Music Music Awards on Monday - King Day - on ABC-TV.

There was a black man (Lenny Kravitz) who rocked. A white man (Beck) carried on like a soul brother. A country band (Lonestar) sounded just like a pop boy-band. A soul crooner (Brian McKnight) sounded just like a pop boy-band. A black man (Dr. Dre) and a white man (Eminem) rapped together. And a blonde teen with a Hispanic surname (Christina Aguilera) tried to sound ...

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