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| is the practice of viewing the world from a European perspective and with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of European culture. |
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| was the first book, that is still in existence, printed in British North America. |
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| was an American choral composer, and is widely regarded as the father of American choral music. |
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| is usually a garden that is opened to the public for recreation. |
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| is a single sheet of cheap paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. |
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| is the simplest and most durable of musical forms, elaborating a piece of music by repetition of a single formal section. |
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| Thomas Dartmouth “Daddy” Rice |
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| was a white performer and playwright who used African Americanvernacular speech, song, and dance to become one of the most popular minstrel show entertainers of his time. |
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| were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities |
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| dance was developed from a "Prize Walk" done in the days of slavery, generally at get-togethers on plantations in theSouthern United States. |
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| is a well-known American folk song dating from the early 19th century. The song's tune was first popularized in the late 1820s and early 1830s by blackface performers |
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| the master of ceremonies of a minstrel show |
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| known as the "father of American music", was the pre-eminent songwriter in theUnited States of the 19th century. Wrote Jeanie wWith the Long Black Hair |
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| s the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. |
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| was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. |
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| was a piano player employed by music stores in the early 20th century to promote and help sell new sheet music... which is how hits were sold before quality recordings were widely available. |
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| was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. was a well regarded American songwriter of popular music. |
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| the process whereby a minority group gradually adapts to the customs and attitudes of the prevailing culture and customs. |
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| was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest Americansongwriters in history. His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous. |
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| was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer".[1] He was born in Russia (now Lithuania) and emigrated to America at the age of five with his Jewish parents. |
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| is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences |
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| main characteristic trait is its syncopated, or "ragged," rhythm. |
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| was an American ragtime and early jazz bandleader, arranger, andcomposer. He was the leading figure on the African American music scene of New York City in the 1910s. |
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| was a popular entertainment venue and society for African American musicians in Harlem, achieving its largest success in the 1910s. |
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| is an open space within Louis Armstrong Park, which is located in the Tremé neighborhood ofNew Orleans, Louisiana, |
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| Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB) |
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| was a New Orleans, Dixieland Jazz band that made the first jazz recordings early in 1917. Their "Livery Stable Blues" became the first jazz single issued. |
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| were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers of the early 20th century. |
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| was a celebration, organized by Patrick Gilmore in Boston on June 15, 1869. It featured an orchestra and a chorus, as well as numerous soloists. In total, more than 11,000 performers participated |
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| March King. was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known particularly for American military and patriotic marches. |
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| American Society of Composers and Publishers |
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| is a style of dance that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks. |
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| is an ecstatic, transcendent religious ritual, first practiced by African slaves in the West Indies and the United States |
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| (call and response) is a form of a cappella hymn-singing or hymnody in which a leader, often called the clerk or precentor, gives each line of a hymn tune as it is to be sung, usually in a chanted form giving or suggesting the tune. |
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| s most often used to denote a wandering musician, usually but not always African American |
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| In jazz and blues, a blue note (also "worried" note[1]) is a note sung or played at a slightly lower pitch than that of the major scale for expressive purposes. |
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| is a glide from one pitch to another. |
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| was a blues singer and guitarist from Texas. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s, and has been titled "Father of the Texas Blues". |
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| was an American blues singer and musician. His landmark recordings from 1936–1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that have influenced later generations of musicians. |
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| Theater Owners Booking Association |
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| was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s and 1930s. |
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| was a blues composer and musician.[1] He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues". |
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| was an iconic American folk and blues musician, notable for his strong vocals, his virtuosity on the twelve-string guitar, and the songbook of folk standards he introduced. |
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| were traveling horse and wagon teams which peddled "miracle cure" medications and other products between various entertainment acts. |
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| is a general term often used to describe any guitar played on the lap with a slide or steel. |
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| The Dobro was the third resonator guitar design by John Dopyera, the inventor of the resonator guitar, but the second to enter production. |
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| was a talent scout, recording engineer and record producer in the field of music in the 1920s and 1930s. Peer pioneered remote recording of music |
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| is a weekly country music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee that has presented the biggest stars of the genre since 1925. |
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| are considered the "Big Bang" of modern country music. They were held in 1927 in Bristol, Tennessee by Victor Talking Machine Company company producerRalph Peer. They marked the commercial debuts of Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family. |
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| was a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact onbluegrass, country, southern gospel, pop and rock musicians |
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| was an African-American musician whose influence on the Carter Family helped to shape country music. |
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| was a blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player, best known for his work as a member of Muddy Waters' band of the 1950s. |
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| were the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. |
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| was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger andcomposer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music. |
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| Leader of the most popular dance bands in the United States during the 1920s, Whiteman's recordings were immensely successful, and press notices often referred to him as the "King of Jazz." |
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| a dance based on the popular Charleston and named for Charles Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing in 1927 |
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| can be used as a noun to refer to a swing dancer or various types of swing dances, for example, the Lindy Hop,[1] Jive, and East Coast Swing. |
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| a famous night club in Harlem, New York City that operated during Prohibition that included jazz music. |
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| was a composer, pianist, and big band leader. Ellington wrote over 1,000 compositions. |
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| A racial slur, used primarily in the 1950s and 1960s to describe African-American influenced music as "noise" and "primitive" |
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| was an American jazz and swing musician, clarinetist andbandleader; widely known as the "King of Swing". |
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| is a blues singer and guitarist. He is the son of record producer John [H.] Hammond [, Jr.] and is sometimes referred to as "John Hammond, Jr." |
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| was an American musical variety show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989, hosted from 1957 until its final season by Dick Clark |
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| was a pioneering American jazz, blues and rhythm & blues musician, songwriter andbandleader who enjoyed his greatest popularity from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox" |
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| also known as Moondog, was an American disc-jockey.[1] He became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio |
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| was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. |
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| is a 1955 social commentary film about teachers in an inner-city school. It is based on the novel of the same name byEvan Hunter. |
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| known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. |
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| is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and considered one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" |
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| was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" |
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| was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record the hit song "Hound Dog" in 1952. |
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| as a record label started in 1949 by Don D. Robey in Houston, Texas. "Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thornton was a bit hit for Peacock in 1953. |
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| is an American singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He covered black artists' songs (when part of the country was segregated) and sold more copies than his black counterparts. |
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| the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio, |
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| is the transformation of goods and services (or things that may not normally be regarded as goods or services)[1] into a commodity. |
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| was a German-born international sociologist, philosopher, and musicologist. FIRST TO STUDY POP MUSIC. |
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