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The American music industry has actively attempted to popularize white performers of African American music because they are more palatable to mainstream and middle-class Americans. [ citation needed ] This process has been related to the rise of stars as varied as Benny Goodman , Eminem , and Elvis Presley , as well as popular styles like blue ...
Though Appalachian and African American folk music became the basis for most of American popular music, the United States is home to a diverse assortment of ethnic groups. In the early 20th century, many of these ethnic groups supported niche record industries and produced minor folk stars like Pawlo Humeniuk , the "King of the Ukrainian ...
The main branches of the music industry are the live music industry, the recording industry, and all the companies that train, support, supply and represent musicians. The recording industry produces three separate products: compositions (songs, pieces, lyrics), recordings (audio and video) and media (such as CDs or MP3s , and DVDs ).
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American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Distinctive styles of American popular music emerged early in the 19th century, and in the 20th century the American music industry developed a series of new forms of music, using elements of blues ...
Timeline of music in the United States To 1819 1820–1849 1850–1879 1880–1919 1920–1949 1950–1969 1970–present Music history of the United States Colonial era – to the Civil War – During the Civil War – Late 19th century – 1900–1940 – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly ...
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors that the RIAA says "create, manufacture, and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legally sold recorded music in the United States". [1]
A bookstore in New York is opened by Myron Surmach, becoming one of the major institutions of the Ukrainian American music industry. [319] Irish American music's commercial recording begins in earnest with the work of Ellen O'Byrne DeWitt in Boston. [320] Ernest Bloch comes to America. His subsequent work will mark "the crux of the Hebraic ...