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Pages in category "Musical groups established in the 1920s" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
George Gershwin premiers Rhapsody in Blue, an historically significant piece [83] that fused three strands of American music: modernist classical music, instrumental jazz and popular blues; the piece "played a role in defining American musical modernism" in the 1920s, [84] though it was "probably the most successful work in the movement to ...
American popular music (also referred to as "American Pop") is popular music produced in the United States and is a part of American pop culture. Distinctive styles of American popular music emerged early in the 19th century, and in the 20th century the American music industry developed a series of new forms of music, using elements of blues ...
Though Appalachian and African American folk music became the basis for most of American popular music, the United States is home to a diverse assortment of ethnic groups. In the early 20th century, many of these ethnic groups supported niche record industries and produced minor folk stars like Pawlo Humeniuk , the "King of the Ukrainian ...
Paul Samuel Whiteman [1] (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) [2] was an American Jazz bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist. [3]As the leader of one of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s and early 1930s, Whiteman produced recordings that were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz".
Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an inventive trumpet and cornet player, he was a foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the music from collective improvisation to solo performance. [5] Around 1922, Armstrong followed his mentor, Joe "King" Oliver, to Chicago to play in Oliver's Creole
The American Wind Band: A Cultural History. GIA Publications. ISBN 1-57999-467-9. Hardie, Daniel (2002). Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style. iUniverse. 0595218768. Heskes, Irene (Winter 1984). "Music as Social History: American Yiddish Theater Music, 1882–1920". American Music. 2 (4).
Category: 1920s in American music. ... Topics specifically related to the decade 1920s in the music of United States, i.e. in the years 1920 to 1929. 1870s; 1880s;