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New England is an American rock band, who were best known in the US for their first single, "Don't Ever Wanna Lose Ya", which received heavy radio exposure on Album-oriented rock (AOR) stations and reached #40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1979. [1]
Pages in category "Music of New England" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Beatdown hardcore; C.
The New England Music Awards are an annual award show. Bands and artists from the New England region of the United States are eligible for receipt of the awards.
Massachusetts is a U.S. state in New England.The music of Massachusetts has developed actively since it was first colonized by Britain. The city of Boston is an especially large part of the state's present music scene, which includes several genres of rock, as well as classical, folk, and hip hop music.
Aug. 25—HAVERHILL — The music scene in Haverhill is all abuzz with three Haverhill artists being nominated in various categories for this year's New England Music Awards. Haverhill's nominees ...
In New England, the music was very religious and was vitally important in the rising of American music. The migration of people southward led to the settling of the Appalachian Mountains. There many poor Europeans inhabited and brought country blues and fiddling. As music spread, the religious hymns were still just as popular
Yankee tunesmiths (also called the First New England School) were self-taught composers active in New England from 1770 until about 1810.Their music was largely forgotten when the Better Music Movement turned musical tastes towards Europe, as in Thomas Hastings's 1822 Dissertation on Musical Taste and other works.
William Billings' The New-England Psalm-Singer is the first compilation of entirely American music and the first compiled by a native-born American to be published, [102] first major publication by a singing master, [101] and the first tunebook in the country dedicated to the music of a single composer.