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Rural Music
Traditional rural music was the first kind of music brought to America. When the British came over to the New World they brought their music too. It was only brought to certain areas of America and became refered to as "Hillbilly Music" -
Black Roots
Music started when slaves would hum and chant on the field to make the time go by. As time passed this became music and would be about things more than to pass the time, like love. After the civil war black people would be singing everywhere -
Sheet Music
Sheet music is a form of music that can be written and bought as separate pieces of paper. during the late 1800s music was primarily sold like this so people could play songs of others. -
Al Jolson
He was the first important pop singer, singing in blackface. He because one of the biggest stars on Broadway. He was also the first star in the first movie that was actually successful. He was a crooner which was what the first pop singers were known as -
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Early Genres
In music there are many genres. These genres however launched music into its career. They are all different in their own ways of originality. Boogie-Woogie was piano blues but with a twist, it was repeating a left hand to imitate the blues guitar. Urban Blues was the first electric style. Jazz is basically just improvisation. Bebop is a form of Jazz that came to light during the Swing Era, it had more sound than words and it was a group effort. Gospel is angelic holy singing. And so on -
Acoustical and Electric Process
The acoustic process was when the phonograph would capture the sound of people singing and playing music. The phonograph was created by Thomas Edison and it was a horn that would take the sound vibrations that it was hearing and make impressions onto to tinfoil to be able to play it back. The electrical process made everything much easier for musicians by using the microphone. -
Country and Classic Blues
Country blues was the beginning of all the different genres of blues. It was only sung by solo artists and with their guitars. Classic blues was pretty similar considering it is also an early version of blues. It was sung by female artists and backup singers. After the Great Depression hit, the music industry as a whole was almost killed and classic blues was. -
The Grand Ole Opry
The Grand Ole Opry is one of the first radio stations ever created. It featured live performance's primarily by country artists. It is still on today and is the longest running radio stations. It used to be called WSM but in 1927 they changed the name to "The Grand Old Opry. -
Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley was a music publishing industry. Every musician wanted to be published by them. They published the most popular songs at the time. The composers of Tin Pan Alley were Irving Berlin, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein ll, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. -
Thomas A. Dorsey
Thomas Dorsey was one of the biggest gospel singers ever. He is even called 'The Father of Gospel Music". But before he was a religious singer he sang and played music on the piano. The songs were the opposite of religious and very inapropriate. He went from singing "It's Tight Like That", to "Take My Hand Precious Lord". -
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The Swing Era
This form of music was this times pop music. It brouht back music after the Great Depression. It made people happy furing the tough times of World War ll. This was dancing music, one of the dances being the "jitterbug". -
Benny Goodman
He was the first star that rose to fame during the swing era. He had hundreds of teenagers show up to hear and dance to the program NBC play his music. He also covered from black artists music. -
R & B and Country
After the war these styles of music started to become more and more prevalent in the music industry. They were still being ignored by the music industries, so they became independent artists -
Race Music
Race music is what you call any type of music sung or written by a black person. Some genres would be blues and jazz. At the time this kinda of music became the most popular music because white teenagers were only listening to them. -
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra was the first pop singer to be different. His role in music was "the dangerous bad boy". All the songs he sang he sang in his own style and always stayed true to himself. he was admired by many. -
Covers
In this time music industries still only producing white artists. As a tactic companies starting paying black artist for white artists to cover their songs. For a while it worked but white teenagers started to get bored of the white cover artists and wanted the real people behind the songs. -
Elvis Presley
Elvis began his singing career when he signed with the record company 'Sun Records'. He is one of the biggest influencers of music and is often refered to as 'The King of Rock and Roll". He changed the way men were viewed, and become one of the first male sex icons. -
Doo-Wop
Doo-Wop was the most popular race music of its time. It was Capella styled and was similar to scat singing, which was improvisation. It also only featured groups and dancing. -
Pat Boone
Pat Boone based his whole career off taking music from others. He never came up wioth his own songs and only stol and 'covered' from black artists. He was basically just a puppet for his recording company. His career died when white teenager no longer wanted to listen to his boring covers of great songs. He was also the biggest tool alive, he now sells bathtubs. -
Frankie Lymon
Frankie Lymon was the youngest singer of his time. At only 13 years old he had his own band called "Frankie Lymon and The Teenagers". His producer was stealing his money because he was only 13 and could not access it. After Lymon hit puberty he had no money left for him and his career died.
