American history By facebooker_3034751966542200 1761 Benjamin Franklin invents the Glass Harmonica Period: 1850 to 1852 Jenny Lind US tour 1853 Gottschalk's The Banjo 1854 Stephen Foster's "Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair" 1894 Amy Beach's Gaelic Symphony 1897 John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever 1899 Joplin Maple Leaf Rag 1914 WC handy St. Louis Blues Period: 1925 to 1960 Broadway's 1st Golden Age 1930 Still Afro American Symphony 1939 Bluegrass 1940 Duke Ellington’s Cottontail 1946 John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano 1951 Alan Freed coined R&R 1959 Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue 1967 Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band album 1969 Woodstock Festival 1974 Beach Boys “good vibrations” 1979 Sugarhill gang’s “rappers delight” 1986 Walk this Way (Aerosmith and run dmc video) 1987 John Adams- Nixon in China Period: 1995 to 2019 Broadway's 2nd Golden Age