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This is a list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, digital art and video art.
One of the most popular performers of Peking opera in history, Mei Lanfang, visits the United States, bringing that tradition to North America. [ 246 ] Henry Cowell publishes New Musical Resources , which is "probably the earliest comprehensive statement of intent by a 'modernistic' American composer (and) and indispensable document in the ...
Dance clubs became enormously popular in the 1920s. Their popularity peaked in the late 1920s and reached into the early 1930s. Dance music came to dominate all forms of popular music by the late 1920s. Classical pieces, operettas, folk music, etc., were all transformed into popular dancing melodies to satiate the public craze for dancing.
1920 1990 Texas Texas blues [332] Sonny Boy Williamson II: 1909* 1965 Mississippi Chicago blues [333] Alan Wilson: 1943 1970 Massachusetts Electric blues [334] U.P. Wilson: 1934 2004 Louisiana Texas blues [237] Johnny Winter: 1944 2014 Texas Electric blues [335] Jimmy Witherspoon: 1920 1997 Arkansas Jump blues [336] Big John Wrencher: 1924* ...
The style had first become popular in the late 1950s, in response to the growing encroachment of rock and roll on the country genre, but saw its greatest success in the 1960s. Artists like Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold, Ray Price, Patsy Cline, Floyd Cramer, Roger Miller, [51] and many others achieved great success through songs such as "He'll Have to ...
Jim Reeves, crossover artist, invented Nashville Sound with Chet Atkins; Charlie Rich, '50s rock star who enjoyed greatest success in '70s country; Marty Robbins, one of the most popular artists in country music history. Named artist of the decade (1960–1969) by the Academy of Country Music
By the 1960s, the term rhythm and blues had no longer been in wide use; instead, terms such as soul music were used to describe popular music by black artists. In the 1980s, however, rhythm and blues came back into use, most often in the form of R&B , a usage that has continued to the present.
Bing Crosby was the best selling pop artist of the 1940s. Ragtime, a genre that first became popular in the 1890s, was popular through about the 1940s. After its best-known exponent, Scott Joplin, died in 1917, the genre faded. As the 1920s unfolded, jazz rapidly took over as the dominant form of popular music in the United States.