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Poster Children is an American indie rock band formed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1987. [1] They have issued nine studio albums and two EPs. Known for their strong DIY ethic, the band members continue to drive their own tour bus, create their own artwork and T-shirt designs, and operate their own record label.
Contents: Ancient music – Early history – 1500s – 1510s – 1520s – 1530s – 1540s – 1550s – 1560s – 1570s – 1580s – 1590s – 1600s – 1610s ...
F. L. Ritter publishes the first comprehensive music history of the United States, Music in America. [27] The Freeman, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based periodical, is founded, soon becoming the primary trade paper for African American theatrical groups. [28] Gretsch becomes the first drum manufacturer in the United States. [29]
Frank Sinatra was born 100 years ago today and changed music forever ... by no means is this a definitive list, but just some of the songs that helped shaped the music industry for years to come ...
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 is a timeline of music in the United States .
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 ...
19 Black figures who changed history. TheGrio. September 23, 2024 at 8:10 AM. ... Rosa Parks was an Alabama native and a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activist ...
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."