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Gerard Peter Kuiper (/ ˈ k aɪ p ər / KY-pər; born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper, Dutch: [ˈɣɛrɪt ˈpitər ˈkœypər]; 7 December 1905 – 23 December 1973) was a Dutch-American astronomer, planetary scientist, selenographer, author and professor. The Kuiper belt is named after him. Kuiper is considered by many to be the father of modern ...
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Popular music, or "classic pop," dominated the charts for the first half of the 1950s.Vocal-driven classic pop replaced Big Band/Swing at the end of World War II, although it often used orchestras to back the vocalists. 1940s style Crooners vied with a new generation of big voiced singers, many drawing on Italian bel canto traditions.
Catalog Number: Kuiper Gerard F1 Gerard P. Kuiper checking optical alignment of his instrument on the Convair 990 (Galileo) circa 1966. Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, courtesy, AIP Emilio Segre Visual Archives 1 digital image (RGB) Orientation: Normal: Horizontal resolution: 300 dpi: Vertical resolution: 300 dpi ...
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...
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 ...
Thomas too championed works by leading European composers. He also conducted works by leading U.S. composers. Today, the vast majority of 19th century U.S. composers are all but lost to history. This was also the era when women composers and African-American composers started to see their music published in increased numbers.
[42] [43] Lamar's album Damn (2017) was the first work of music outside of classical music or jazz to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. [44] In 2018, Highsnobiety labeled Death Grips , a hip-hop and rock band from California, as perhaps "the most important hip-hop act of the decade", in that they were highly influential despite not being the ...