American history

  • Benjamin Franklin invents the Glass Harmonica

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    Jenny Lind US tour

  • Gottschalk's The Banjo

  • Stephen Foster's "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair"

  • Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony

  • John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever

  • Joplin Maple Leaf Rag

  • WC handy St. Louis Blues

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    Broadway's 1st Golden Age

  • Still Afro American Symphony

  • Bluegrass

  • Duke Ellington’s Cottontail

  • John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  • Alan Freed coined R&R

  • Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue

  • Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band album

  • Woodstock Festival

  • Beach Boys “good vibrations”

  • Sugarhill gang’s “rappers delight”

  • Walk this Way (Aerosmith and run dmc video)

  • John Adams- Nixon in China

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    Broadway's 2nd Golden Age