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The main branches of the music industry are the live music industry, the recording industry, and all the companies that train, support, supply and represent musicians. The recording industry produces three separate products: compositions (songs, pieces, lyrics), recordings (audio and video) and media (such as CDs or MP3s , and DVDs ).
Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. American music began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North
The Army Music School at Fort Jay is moved to the Army War College in Washington, D.C. [25]; Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's Shuffle Along is an influential work in the history of African American theater, re-establishing the black musical theater tradition.
Ancient music – Early history – 1500s ... which had sold 26.4 million copies worldwide according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, ...
Bill C. Malone's Country Music U.S.A. is the first major history of country music. [112] A festival is held in New Orleans, as part of the city's 250th celebration. The festival will be held every year, eventually becoming the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, one of the premier jazz festivals in the country. [318]
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
The growing popularity of Black country artists, spurred in part by Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter,” has sparked a conversation around the history of the genre and the past and present racial ...
According to Israeli Jewish historian Ari Katorza, although only two percent of the total US population was Jewish, their representation in the music industry was much higher, [4] and by this time they owned or managed about "forty percent of the independent record companies recording and distributing rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues music in ...