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	Category:United States music history - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Music history of the United States during the colonial era
		Timeline of trends in music from the United States (1930-1970)
		Timeline of trends in music from the United States to 1930
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:United_States_music_history (284 words)

	Music of the United States - Definition up Erdmond.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The original inhabitants of the United States included hundreds of Native_American tribes, as well as native Hawaiians and Inuits, who played the first music in the area, eventually augmented by immigrants from England, Scotland, Ireland, Spain and France.
		Doo_wop, a complex type of vocal music, also became popular during the 1950s, and left its mark on 1960s soul and R&B. Its polished sound and romantic ballads made it a major part of the 50s music scene, and, later in the decade, began producing teen_idols like Frankie_Valli.
		A rivalry began, fed by the music news, focussing on West Coast's Tupac_Shakur and the East Coast's Notorious_B.I.G. By the middle of the decade, Tupac and Biggie were shot dead, and Dr Dre's Death_Row_Records had fallen apart.
	www.erdmond.com /Music_of_the_United_States.html (2603 words)

	SURFING FOR LIFE -- Hawaiian Music & Hula
		Hawaiian music was rooted in old religious chants and hymns, which the native Hawaiians then mixed with the musical rhythms, sounds and instruments they heard from international visitors, immigrants and missionaries.
		The music combined slack-key and steel guitar with prominent use of the ukulele mixed with traditional Hawaiian chants and tones, The Mainland home of Hawaiian music in the '20 and '30s was the Lexington Hotel Lounge in New York, ruled by Hawaiian band leader Ray Kenney.
		Musical talent aside, Gabby was beloved by Hawaiians and musicians alike for his raucous personality, his infectious vitality and the way he put his soul into his music.
	www.surfingforlife.com /music.html (3923 words)

	rock music. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Essentially hybrid in origin, rock music includes elements of several fl and white American music styles: fl guitar-accompanied blues; fl rhythm and blues, noted for saxophone solos; fl and white gospel music; white country and western music; and the songs of white popular crooners and harmony groups.
		Emerging in 1954–55, rock music was initially referred to as “rock ‘n’ roll.” After 1964 it was simply called “rock music.” The change in terminology indicates both a continuity with and a break from the earlier period; rock music was no longer just for dancing.
		A turning point in rock music occurred in the mid-1970s in the form of punk rock, which was a response to the stagnation of the genre and a nihilistic political statement.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ro/rockmusi.html (1583 words)

	United States-Mexico Border
		The dominant discourse that assigns low social value to particular sectors of the population is answered by a creative flood of expressions of identity in music, graphic arts, poetry, and styles of clothing and self presentation.
		Here the "pachuco," a Mexican American, neighborhood identity of the 1940s and '50s was reforged as that of the "cholo," Mexican and Mexican American youth of today.
		The eastern region of the border along the Rio Bravo (later called Rio Grande in the United States) was more hospitable and became a focus of regional life as towns grew up along its banks.
	www.smithsonianeducation.org /migrations/bord/intro.html (2515 words)

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		Beginning in the 1940s, Pete Seeger's revival of the five-string banjo to accompany folk music began to introduce the instrument to new northern and urban audiences.
		After delta blues, country music was the first style of popular music based around the guitar, and the prominent guitar lines in the recordings of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family helped bring the guitar forward in the early thirties to become the dominant stringed instrument of the twentieth century.
		In the United States, mandolin orchestras, with mandolas, mando-cellos, and even an occasional mando-bass, were a popular feature of community life in many areas early in the twentieth century.
	www.countrymusichalloffame.com /explore/instruments.html (3415 words)

	Omniseek: /Music /History /1940s
		History: 1940s The National Lawyers Guild was influential in shaping the socal legislation the characterized the New Deal era.
		History: In the 1940's, went from Radford to Willis on current CR 787.
		Swing To Bop; An Oral History Of The Tra.
	www.omniseek.com /srch/{77387} (656 words)

	Culture & Change: Black History in America
		Born in the South, the blues is an African American-derived music form that recognized the pain of lost love and injustice and gave expression to the victory of outlasting a broken heart and facing down adversity.
		Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city.
		One of the most significant figures in music history, Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was born on April 29, 1899, in Washington, D.C. He began studying the piano at the age of seven.
	teacher.scholastic.com /activities/bhistory/history_of_jazz.htm (1337 words)

	Black Music Month, 2003
		Before our Nation's strides toward equal justice, music such as jazz and blues provided a venue in which people of all races could be judged by their talent, and not the color of their skin.
		The heart of the Harlem Renaissance is reflected in the original and authentic music of such influential figures as Bessie Smith, Count Basie, and Fletcher Henderson.
		African Americans continued to influence popular music through the 1940s and 50s, with the emergence of rhythm and blues and rock and roll.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/blackhis/proc062503.htm (653 words)

	Roller Skating History of the United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Under the guidance of the RSROA, roller skating enjoyed steady growth through the 1940s, '50s and '60s.
		And, the music and lighting at skating centers was modernized.
		Roller skating is easy, inexpensive entertainment, so people of all ages make it a habit to meet friends, make new ones, play games and enjoy the music at their nearest skating center.
	www.skateland.com /rshis.html (553 words)

	Dance Magazine: Transitions - dancers, United States - Obituary
		Students fondly remember her saying, "Dance until the end of the music." She also was known for having a good eye for costuming and other production elements.
		The Main Library of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Department of Local History and Genealogy, holds the Jerry A. Reed Jr.
		"The apogee of his career was in the late 1940s and '50s; after that he directed the Norwegian Opera Ballet and later went to the Berlin Opera and to Rome." In addition, he worked with companies in Denver, Cleveland, Nashville, and Spokane.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_12_75/ai_80714427 (1218 words)

	Phenomenology Online: Scholars;
		According to Dilthey, these subjective human studies (including law, religion, art, and history) should concentrate on a "human-social-historical reality." He held that the study of the human sciences involves the interaction of personal experience; the reflective understanding of experience; and an expression of the spirit in gesture, words, and art.
		Harold Garfinkel is a well known contemporary scholar in the United States on the studies of ethnomethodology.
		While most of his work is written in the 1940s and 50s when there was very little literature on embodiment available, his texts are still extremely original, inspiring and insightful.
	www.maxvanmanen.com /scholars/scholars.html (9009 words)

	Records International catalogue October 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The music is as skilfully written for the strings as for Goetz' own instrument, the piano, and anyone who wishes there were as yet undiscovered chamber masterworks by Schumann or Brahms would do well to console themselves by investigating this disc.
		Flössner's music is basically tonal, and quite romantic in outlook; while obviously of the 20th century it is the music of a conservative; the sort of thing Franz Schmidt might have been doing had he been born 25 years later.
		The history of the work, which tells us a good deal about orchestral manoevering in the arena of musical politics, which is concisely and trenchantly dealt with by Schuller in the notes, is also illuminating.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogOct98.html (11710 words)

	Bibliography for Labor History Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is an annotated guide to reference sources on labor in the United States, prepared by Andrew Lee, Librarian of the Tamiment Institute Library at New York University.
		Set in the 1940s and 50s, this novel reveals the cost for working people of the Cold War, McCarthyism and political repression in a fictional factory town.
		The murder of an IWW organizer becomes the subject of a 1950s congressional subcommittee, where a former Pinkerton detective (based on the character of Dashiell Hammett) relives his involvement (or not) in the assassination.
	juteux.net /rory/labor.html (2911 words)

	WDW History
		At least 7,500 acres would be permanently kept in their natural state (the total number of acres set aside today is 8,300).
		Synthesized music accompanies each segment, and is tied together with an overall score called "Baroque Hoedown." The floats themselves are small, battery-powered vehicles covered in wire mesh frames.
		Along their journeys, they studied history, culture, and world contributions of each nation, then based the theme of each showcase on either a time-line, historical landmark, and/or famous cities familiar to the entire world.
	www.wdwmagic.com /wdwhistory.htm (12461 words)

	FILM MUSIC REVIEW (From the Editor) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Because of the condition of the acetates, some of the cues are from the Spanish music and effects track that was prepared several years after the film's release.
		Yet his film music will continue to live on...and fortunately a lot of it is available on such labels as Prometheus Records and Film Score Monthly.
		The music from JFK is yet another example of his skill in setting the proper mood in the film.
	hometown.aol.com /musbuff/page37.htm (12873 words)

	The Great Swing Band Arrangers
		Much of the music we recall from the Big Band era, is remembered not because of the melody of the music, or the interest of the Lyric, but rather for the beauty of the Arrangments used by the Big Bands.
		Born into a musical family, -his father played in Brass Band and his mother sang contralto - Don was a child prodigy playing the trumpet at age 3.
		In 1951, he became musical director for singer Pearl Bailey, and for a while he led her band on theatre engagements as well as appearing in a small acting role in her 1954-55 Broadway show "House of Flowers".
	www.nfo.net /usa/arranger.html (11498 words)

	Big Band Music History Biography - Billy May
		This piece details the Count Basie vs. Chick Webb big band music Battle Of Swing held at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in January of 1938.
		Throughout the 1940s May worked in studios doing staff work for NBC and later Capitol Records.
		In the early 50s however May contributed a few Latin numbers to the Herman band book.
	www.swingmusic.net /Big_Band_Jazz_History_Biography_Billy_May.html (1613 words)

	"The American 1950s"
		Anne Frank - 1997 Anne Frank on Broadway, per Vincent Canby, is "stuck in the 50s" (December 1997 review)
		Historical overviews from Ellen Schrecker's The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (1994)
		Renewed alliance of labor and academics (September 1996 article), with several references to the history of this relationship, which thrived in the 1930s and declined in the 1950s.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/home.html (2198 words)

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