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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 ...
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the Black-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, [5] [6] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. [7] [8] New Orleans provided a cultural humus in which jazz could germinate because it was a port city with many cultures and beliefs intertwined. [9]
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 ...
In 1920, the jazz age was underway and was indirectly fueled by prohibition of alcohol. [5] In Chicago, the jazz scene was developing rapidly, aided by the immigration of over 40 prominent New Orleans jazzmen to the city, continuous throughout much of the 1920s, including The New Orleans Rhythm Kings who began playing at Friar's Inn. [5]
Henry Thomas (1874 – 1930) was an American country blues singer, songster and musician. Although his recording career, in the late 1920s, was brief, Thomas influenced performers including Bob Dylan, Taj Mahal, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Grateful Dead, and Canned Heat.
Al Jolson's 1920 recording of "Avalon". "Avalon" is a 1920 popular song written by Al Jolson, Buddy DeSylva and Vincent Rose referencing Avalon, California. [2] It was introduced by Jolson and interpolated in the musicals Sinbad and Bombo. Jolson's recording rose to number two on the charts in 1921. [2]
Category: 1920s in American music. ... Topics specifically related to the decade 1920s in the music of United States, i.e. in the years 1920 to 1929. 1870s; 1880s;
Modern Native American pow wows arose around the turn of the 20th century. While some claim that pow wow had been an integral part of indigenous cultures for over 10 centuries, some modern analysts believe that pow wows were invented to appeal to tourists and had only a tangential relationship to genuine Native American traditions, which generally revolved around ceremonial dance music like ...