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The most-subscribed YouTube channel is MrBeast, having 320 million subscribers as of October 12, 2024, and gaining subscribers by an average of about 184,000 per day. [14][15][16] 50 most-subscribed channels. The following table lists the 50 most-subscribed YouTube channels,[B][17]as well as the primary language, country, and content category ...
The "Great American Songbook" is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of time in their life and legacy. Often referred to as "American Standards", the songs published during the Golden Age of this genre include those popular and enduring ...
Starring Sam Bernard, Irene Bordoni, Clifton Webb and Hugh Cameron. The Beggar's Opera London production opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on June 5 and ran for 1,463 performances. Die Blaue Mazur (The Blue Mazurka) (Music by Franz Lehár), Vienna.
The Roaring Twenties, sometimes stylized as Roaring '20s, refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion, as it happened in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, [ 1 ] Buenos Aires, [ 2 ][ 3 ...
Jazz standards are musical compositions that are widely known, performed and recorded by jazz artists as part of the genre's musical repertoire. This list includes compositions written in the 1920s that are considered standards by at least one major book publication or reference work. Some of the tunes listed were already well-known standards ...
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. This is a timeline of music in the United States from 1920 to 1949.
Inventor George Owen Squier, credited with inventing telephone carrier multiplexing in 1910, developed the original technical basis for Muzak. [7] [8] [9] He was granted several US patents in the 1920s [9] related to transmission of information signals, among them U.S. patent 1,641,608 a system for the transmission and distribution of signals over electrical lines.
Allowing jazz to rise up in American culture brought many unique things to music in 1920. New instrumental, orchestral, and rhythmic techniques were introduced, as well as twelve-bar blues, emotional expressiveness, a new scale, and unique forms (Murchison 98). In 1917, many jazz record companies began to conceal their identity because racial ...