MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Piano Roll, Jelly Roll Morton, World'S Columbian Exposition
13 Sep 2017
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Popular music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Minstrelsy, early dance music, brass bands, birth of tin pan alley, vaudeville , Ragtime, and the rise of the phonograph: minstrelsy, the minstrel show, the first form of musical and theatrical entertainment to be regardedby. Blackface entertainer: made his new york debut in 1828, his act featured two of the earliest ethiopian songs, long tail. United states: the band also played popular songs such as in the good old summer. Manhattan, a dense hive of small rooms with pianos where composers and. Paul dresser (1857 1906: one of the most popular composers of the early tin pan alley period, wrote a series of sentimental and nostalgic songs, including the. Letter that never came (1885) and on the banks of the wabash, far. Away (1899; later adopted as the official state song of indiana)
