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Songs of the American Civil War (3 C, ... (1 C, 98 P) Pages in category "19th-century songs" ... The Caller (folk song)
This is a list of folk song collections including pioneer and notable work in collecting folk songs. Many such collections were made in the 19th century. The earlier ones are often considered to be parts of the National Romanticist interests in folklore. The monumental efforts of single enthusiasts laid the foundation for the modern academic ...
Pages in category "American folk songs" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 364 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Big 3 (folk group) Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys; Big Virginia Sky; Birds of Chicago; The Biscuit Burners; The Bittersweets; Black Lodge Singers; Black Twig Pickers; Blame Sally; Blood Axis; Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys; Bonny Light Horseman (band) The Border Blasters; Borderline (band) Boyd and Wain; Breaux Brothers; The Briarwood ...
Early 1820s music trends The Boston 'Euterpiad becomes the first American periodical devoted to the parlor song. [5]The all-black African Grove theater in Manhattan begins staging with pieces by playwright William Henry Brown and Shakespeare, sometimes with additional songs and dances designed to appeal to an African American audience. [6]
The term American folk music encompasses numerous music genres, variously known as traditional music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, vernacular music, or roots music. Many traditional songs have been sung within the same family or folk group for generations, and sometimes trace back to such origins as the British Isles ...
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.
Hutchinson Family, 1845. The Hutchinson Family Singers were an American family singing group who became the most popular American entertainers of the 1840s. The group sang in four-part harmony a repertoire of political, social, comic, sentimental and dramatic works, and are considered by many to be the first uniquely American popular music performers.