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  2. Arthur Murray - Wikipedia

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    In 1920, he organized the world's first "radio dance"; a band on the Georgia Tech campus played "Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech" and other songs, which were broadcast to a group of about 150 dancers (mostly Tech students) situated atop the roof of the Capital City Club in downtown Atlanta. [7] He graduated from Georgia School of Technology in ...

  3. List of dancers - Wikipedia

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    Chloe Lukasiak (born May 25, 2001), American actress, dancer, author, model and reality TV star most known for starring on the reality show, Dance Moms. Jennifer Lopez (born July 24, 1969), often referred to as J. Lo, is an American actress, singer and dancer. Jennifer Lopez is known for her upbeat pop songs and Latin-pop influenced dancing ...

  4. Space-themed music - Wikipedia

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    Eduard Artemyev has made space-themed music, for example for the space film Solaris (1972), although his best known and successfully covered space-themed sounding piece might be the theme song for non-space film Siberiade (1979). In 1973, Montrose released "Space Station #5" as a single from their self-titled debut album.

  5. Social dancing in the 20th century United States - Wikipedia

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    A swing ‘scene’ is a location in which social interactions, music and dancing happens. [3] Big band music went hand in hand with swing dancing. [4] The swing scene started out edgy and then eventually it merged with popular culture. [3] This resulted in more social dancing and less striving for a unique edge as had happened before. [3 ...

  6. 1920 in music - Wikipedia

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    January 19 – The Salzburg Festival is revived. [1]September 4 – City of Birmingham Orchestra (England) first rehearses (in a city police bandroom). Later this month, its first concert, conducted by Appleby Matthews, opens with Granville Bantock's overture Saul; in November it gives its "First Symphony Concert" when Edward Elgar conducts a programme of his own music in Birmingham Town Hall.

  7. Charleston (1923 song) - Wikipedia

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    The song has been used in a number of films set in the 1920s. Ginger Rogers dances to the music in the film Roxie Hart (1942). [7] In the movies Margie (1946) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), the song is played during school dance scenes. [8] In the movie Tea for Two (1950), with Doris Day and Gordon MacRae, the song is a featured production ...

  8. Novelty song - Wikipedia

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    Novelty songs achieved great popularity during the 1920s and 1930s. [1] [2] They had a resurgence of interest in the 1950s and 1960s. [3] The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music; the other two divisions were ballads and dance music. [4]

  9. Timeline of music in the United States (1880–1919) - Wikipedia

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    Rural Roots of Bluegrass: Songs, Stories and History. Pacific, Missouri: Mel Bay Publications. ISBN 0-7866-7137-8. Gedutis, Susan (2005). See You at the Hall: Boston's Golden Era of Irish Music And Dance. Mick Moloney. UPNE. ISBN 1-55553-640-9. Greene, Victor R. (2004). A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants Between Old World and New, 1830 ...