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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 music. [24] [56] The first African American woman to compose a produced opera is Louisa Melvin Delos Mars, with Leoni, the Gypsy Queen. [57]
3 Published popular music. 4 Classical music. 5 Opera. ... View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... This article is about music-related events in 1880 ...
This timeline of music in the United States covers the period from 1850 to 1879. It encompasses the California Gold Rush, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and touches on topics related to the intersections of music and law, commerce and industry, religion, race, ethnicity, politics, gender, education, historiography and academics.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Music portal; Songs written or first produced in the decade 1880s, i.e the years 1880 to 1889 ...
In the 1890s, more sophisticated African-American styles of the cakewalk and then ragtime music started to become popular. Originally associated primarily with poor African Americans, ragtime was quickly denounced as degenerate by conservatives and the classically trained establishment.
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The early popular music performers worked hand-in-hand with the sheet music industry to promote popular sheet music. One of the early popular music performers to attain widespread popularity was a Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind , who toured the US in the mid-19th century.
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