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      • Beginning in the 17th century, settlers from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, Germany, and France began arriving in large numbers, bringing with them new styles and instruments.
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  2. Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. The history began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North America.

  3. Music history of the United States. Colonial era – to the Civil War – During the Civil War – Late 19th century – 1900–1940 – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s. This is a timeline of music in the United States from 1880 to 1919.

  4. Apr 18, 2024 · The forced arrival of African slaves brought profound musical influences to America. Their spirituals, work songs, and rhythmic patterns eventually gave rise to blues and jazz, genres that would define American music in the global arena.

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    The Junius Theater of Nashville, Tennesseeopens, one of the then largest stages in the country.
    The California Gold Rushbrings the first major influx of European-derived music to the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada and northern California counties.
    The first American Eisteddfod, a Welsh music and art festival tradition, is held in the United States.
    Community brass bands have spread across the country, even to rural Columbia, California, where a local brass band greets the arrival of the first white woman in the town.
    Ex-slave Elizabeth Greenfield begins performing in Buffalo, New York, under the sponsorship of the Buffalo Musical Association. She subsequently tours across North America, becoming popularly known...
    Lewis Henry Morgan conducts the first ethnographicstudy of the Native Americans of the Northeast United States.
    Music education is first introduced into the public school systems of Cleveland, Ohio and San Francisco, California.
    The English singer Anna Thillon stars in a series of opera performances in San Francisco, in the city's first professional season. A local Italian opera company forms as well, performing fourteen o...
    A Syrian settling in Brooklyn is apocryphally said to be the first Arab to permanently move to the United States, thus beginning the Arab Americanmusical tradition.
    Twelve-year-old Augustus Meyers enlists in the Army. His account of the School of Practice for Army bandsmen on Governors Island in New York, published in Ten Years in the Ranks, U.S. Army, is the...
    Members of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, led by a young man named Forest Savage, form a band in Lawrence, Kansas. This is said to be the beginning of the documented music history of Kansas.
    The Board of Music Trade of the United States, a trade cartel, is formed by the twenty-five biggest music publishing companies in the country, instituting price controls on sheet music for European...
    George F. Bristow's Rip Van Winkle is said to be the first successful opera on an American subject, Washington Irving's short story Rip Van Winkle.It is also the first American opera based on a sub...

    W.C. Peters and Son, a music publishing company, releases a collection of hymns that is the first such collection published in the American Midwest.

    Edmund Dédé is possibly the first black North American to graduate from the Paris Conservatory.
    Oliver Ditson's music publishing business begins collaborating with John C. Haynes; the duo will be one of the major publishers of the American Civil War, and will boast of publishing half of the s...
    Dan Emmett, one of the major composers of minstrel songs, begins his career with Bryant's Minstrels.
    William Walker's Southern Harmony contains a song consisting of the text from John Newton's "Amazing Grace" and the tune of the traditional song "New Britain"; this will go on to become one of the...
    "Dixie", a song by Dan Emmettpremiers onstage in New York, soon becoming a rallying cry for both sides of the Civil War. The song will eventually become an iconic symbol of the South.
    James Hungerford, in his novel, The Old Plantation, and What I Gathered There in an Autumn Month, becomes one of the first to transcribe a melody from an African American slave song, a "boat song"...
    Armand Blackmar and his brother, Henry, open a music publishing business in New Orleans. They will become one of the most prominent Southern publishing houses during the Civil War. This year also s...
    "The First Gun Is Fired! May God Protect the Right!" by George Frederick Root is inspired by the Battle of Fort Sumter, the first fighting of the American Civil War. The song is published only thre...
    With the death of Joch C. Walker, his company becomes known as Evans & Cogswell, the most important lithographer and printer in the Confederacy.
    San Francisco is home to 145 operaperformances, making this year a watershed for opera, both in San Francisco and in the United States. An estimated 217,000 seats were sold in the year, in a city w...
    The American Civil War begins. Before it ends, it will have a profound impact on American music, spurring the publishing of patriotic songs on both sides, the migration of African Americans, and th...
    The Battle of First Manassas is among a number of early Southern victories that are "confidently celebrated in broadsides and sheet music, no matter how insignificant the outcome". Other important...
    Clara Louise Kellogg, a professional soloist, debuts at the New York Academy of Music, soon becoming a company manager and major figure in American opera history.
    Thomas Baker publishes the first "sheet-music publication of any black spiritual", Song of the Contrabands. Harriet Tubman's "Go Down, Moses" is the first spiritual published with music in the Unit...
  5. Jul 4, 2012 · The USA and music. We either invented or perfected the Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Ukulele, Electric Bass as well as Jazz, Blues, Country and Bluegrass.

  6. HISTORY OF AMERICAN MUSIC. Tracking the journey of seven key music genres as they evolved throughout the USA from the early 1900s, we celebrate the story of American music and the visionaries...

  7. Combining African-derived instruments with European instruments, African Americans created an original form of improvised and rhythmically complex dance music that would give birth to ragtime and jazz in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, respectively.

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