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"Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" (originally "Columbia, the Land of the Brave") is an American patriotic song which was popular in the U.S. during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Composed c. 1843, it was long used as an unofficial national anthem of the United States, in competition with other
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 ...
The composer Edward McDowell premiers his Piano Concerto No. 2 in New York, establishing him as one of the most prominent composers of the era. [55] W. S. B. Matthews' A Hundred Years of Music in America is the first attempt at a history of "popular and the higher music education" in the country; it hails Lowell Mason as the founder of American ...
January 2 – Charles Willeford, writer (died 1988) January 3 Zara Cisco Brough, Nipmuc Chief (died 1988) Dorothy Morrison, actress (died 2017) January 4 – Lester L. Wolff, politician (died 2021) [9] January 7 – Steve Belichick, American football player, coach and scout (died 2005) January 10 – Amzie Strickland, actress (died 2006)
As with ragtime before, and most major genres since, jazz was blamed for the moral degeneracy of the youth that visited these bars and listened to the music. In spite of the controversy, jazz emerged as the dominant sound of the country in the late 1920s in popularized forms that some called watered down, like swing music and big band. Though ...
Ernst Krenek - Piano Sonata No. 1 in E-flat, Op. 2; Darius Milhaud. Poèmes de Francis Thompson, Op. 54; Les soirées de Pétrograd, Op. 55; Machines agricoles, 6 Pastorales for voice and chamber ensemble, Op. 56; Suite symphonique No. 2, Op. 57; Le bœuf sur le toit, Op. 58 (ballet) Cinéma fantaisie for violin and chamber orchestra, Op. 58b
"Mandy" was originally used for an Army-themed musical revue called Yip Yip Yaphank during World War I. For the number, soldiers in the show dressed in blackface and in drag. [4] This song and chorus line was also re-created for the 1942 play and the 1943 Warner Brothers film This Is The Army.
In 1919, Woodrow Wilson campaigned for congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and allow the U.S. to join the new League of Nations, which he had been instrumental in creating. Wilson rejected the Republican compromise on the issue, and it failed for lack of a 2/3 majority.