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Lulubelle and Scotty begin their career with the National Barn Dance; they will soon become popular music staples, and the first major husband-wife duo in country music history. [337] The Gibson guitar company begins producing electric guitars with the ES-150, a Spanish guitar, introduced this year or the following year.
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-Twenties is a popular history book written by Frederick Lewis Allen, published by Harper & Brothers in 1931 and reissued in 1957. [1] Only Yesterday was a Book of the Month selection, [ 2 ] sold 1 million copies, [ 3 ] and was frequently assigned as college reading.
Scott DeVeaux argues that a standard history of jazz has emerged such that: "After an obligatory nod to African origins and ragtime antecedents, the music is shown to move through a succession of styles or periods: New Orleans jazz up through the 1920s, swing in the 1930s, bebop in the 1940s, cool jazz and hard bop in the 1950s, free jazz and ...
Culture writer Martin Chilton defines the term "Great American Songbook" as follows: "Tunes of Broadway musical theatre, Hollywood movie musicals and Tin Pan Alley (the hub of songwriting that was the music publishers' row on New York's West 28th Street)". Chilton adds that these songs "became the core repertoire of jazz musicians" during the ...
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Music history of the United States. Music history of the United States during the colonial era; Music history of the United States to the Civil War; Music of the American Civil War; Music history of the United States in the late 19th century; Music history of the United States (1900–1940) Music history of the United States in the 1950s; Music ...
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