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The first Africans are sold into slavery in America.
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This was when music was introduced to schools the first time. More people became educate about music and that way effected on it.
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This was the hub of cultural creativity
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Theatre became popular in New York for the first time.
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Production went from produced at home to produced in large factories and most people moved to the cities.
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Musicians who had trouble seeing could finally read sheet music clearly
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Allows people to work without light of course but also leads to stage lighting on Broadway
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New Orleans city council establishes "Congo Square" as an official site for slave music and dance.
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These shows became popular roughly around 1850-1870, and were unfortunately usually based on comic enactment of racial stereotypes
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The first ever musical took place on Broadway which was called "The Elves"
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Slavery is abolished in the U.S. by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Emile Berliner invents the first microphone
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This is important because this was the first machine that was able to reproduce recorded sound. he experimented with a stylist with a tinfoil cylinder. music would be able to be recorded and played back.
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Pianist Tommy Turpin writes Harlem Rag, the first known ragtime composition.
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In Pittsburg, one of the most famous and serious labor disputes ensued.
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Scott Joplin plays ragtime at the World's Fair
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Bessie Smith, the "Empress of Blues", was born.
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Cinema is born.
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The original Jazz band, according to Herbert Asbury's The Latin Quarter (1938), was the 'Spasm Band' made up of seven boys, aged twelve to fifteen, who first appeared in New Orleans. They advertised themselves as the "Razzy Dazzy Spasm Band."
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Radio technology is introduced.
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Racial segregation is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The first piano rags appear in print
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Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag is published and sells over 100,000 copies
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Ellington helps create the big band sound and the beginnings of swing
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Named King of the Cornet
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Armstrong mastered improv and strong, powerful solo playing.
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The Electric Theatre, the first movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California.
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The first wireless broadcast of classical music is produced in New York
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Bert Williams appeared in follies of 1910 along with white entertainers.
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Long before Beats by Dre, there was Utah Mormon and electrician Nathaniel Baldwin's "radio earphones." His creation failed to gain the attention of private companies and even the Smithsonian Institute, however he gained the Navy as a large buyer who prepped for the threat of another possible world war.
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These brothers performed minstrel shows in the theater
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Chicago Tribune wrote about "jass" which was a dirt word and could not be said in front of ladies. "Jass" was also a slag from Jazz.
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The Original Dixieland Jass Band made the first known jazz recording. It was really bad, but no one would let the black musicians into their recording studio until they saw how lucrative recording their music was.
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He went on to create incredible pieces of music and composed West Side Story.
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The Actors’ Equity Association demanded a standard contract for professional producers and theatre were shut down.
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Chicago was jazz capital and Arnold Schoenberg introduced the concept of serialism; a composition where a melodic line is repeated.
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The first radio broadcasts considered as a form of entertainment were in the cities of Detroit and Pittsburgh. These were groundbreaking times that allowed peoples voices to be heard in much broader areas.
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From 1920-1933, alcoholic beverages were banned in America, causing the uprise of speakeasies, and consequently underground jazz performances.
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In a town within Illinois, Jazz was banned because they believed that it was considered sinful.
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Recordings created for African Americans and recorded by African American jazz musicians.
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George Gershwin composes "Rhapsody in Blue" in less than 3 weeks.
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In New York, Julliard School opened and George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premiered.
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This rotation speed became the standard for all records made.
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Miles Davis was influential in Cool Jazz specifically, and also in Jazz Rock.
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The first motion picture with sound included in it was released. The name of this "talkie" was called "The Jazz Singer". This sort of technology is something completely new to the people of that time.
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This release was demonstrative of how Jazz was evolving in Chicago
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The Great Depression led to the creation of blues
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The fourth and last day of the stock market crash, leading to The Great Depression.
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This is I'm important because the music could now be loud enough to be heard in a large concert hall and also be loud enough to be part of a band. George Beauchamp and Adolph Rickenbacker created the first.
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Within Germany, Jazz is banned from being listened on the radio stations
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The first ever jazz bar opens
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Franklin Roosevelt's infamous response to The Great Depression created hope for America, including struggling jazz musicians.
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Jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald starts her career with the Chick Webb orchestra.
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George Gershwin dies unexpectedly of a brain tumor in Hollywood. He is famous for creating Rhapsody in Blue.
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Rodgers and Hart, return to Broadway to create the circus-themed "Jumbo."
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German composer Kurt Weill, an exile from Hitler's Germany, arrives in New York.
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Arguably, the greatest singer to ever live is born on the date. He would go on to inspire and awe millions of people around the world with a single voice.
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The introduction of a very important instrument.
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This is the first incident of a Shakespeare play being developed for a musical performance
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Billy Strayhorn met up with Duke Ellington and quickly became his other half and his alter ego, forming a relationship that took Duke from being a jazz great to America's all-time greatest composer.
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Strange Fruit was a powerful, blunt statement about lynchings in the south
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WWII and Jazz both had profound impacts on each other
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In this performance, Charlie makes a discovery that leads to the invention of Bebop
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This magazine published it's first music popularity chart out nationally. This was a compiled list of all of the top songs from the time period.
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Miles Davis popularizes the Cool Jazz
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Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" revolutionizes musical theater by utilizing dance numbers as transitional elements.
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Charlie Parker displayed Bebop style and improvisation in this piece.
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The Tony Award recognizes excellence in Broadway theatre
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The creator of the Phantom of the Opera and other famous musicals.
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Bruce Springsteen born on September 23rd, 1949. He had a huge impact on music. More importantly, he was able to turn huge venues and arenas into small and intimate places for an audience.
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The start of one of the biggest jazz festivals in the United States.
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After the facade of revenue producing entertainment started to fade, a very old and very forgotten Duke Ellington reminded a bunch of well-to-do white folks what the soul of jazz was all about with a huge performance in Newport, Rhode Island.
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The first production of The Sound of Music, by Roger and Hammerstein
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Ended the segregation in the southern states
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After becoming the most popular group in Europe, the Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan's tv show in 1964. Soon after, 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand' exploded to the top of the US charts along with their four previous singles. In March 1964, they dominated the top five chart slots in America.
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An annual celebration of the music and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana.
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This album was revolutionary in jazz because it displayed the beauty of jazz rock, or fusion.
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Grease, like many other notable plays performed on broadway began as something performed live. It's success on stage led to its adaptation into a film which also saw huge success making it the second largest grossing musical film of all time, behind 2017's Beauty and the Beast.
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The musical filled with crime, love, and "all that jazz" premiered.
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The AIDS epidemic changed many peoples lives
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First 24 hour music video channel. the first video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by the Buggles.
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This is when the first ever compact disc that was created, which was used for many things in the coming years, including music.
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Internet created as a way of communicating faster. This allowed people to share music.
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Live Aid was a benefit concert that launched many bands into stardom.
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One of the most successful musicals of all times begins its era.
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The first production of the musical RENT is performed on Broadway
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The highest grossing broadway musical of all time has brought in over $1.37 Billion and is still running.
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The world wide web is created by Tim Berners-Lee which sparks an information revolution.
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The iPod is a line of portable music players that have grown with capabilities to be multi-purpose pocket-sized computers. They boomed with success over competing portable music devices, designed and marketed by Apple. The product was released roughly 8 1/2 months following the debut of iTunes on Mac computers.
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The creation of being able to buy online music.
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The anticipated story of Oz before Dorothy arrived finally hit the main stage.
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Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, the "cradle of Jazz", leaving behind $200 billion of damage.
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The Phantom of Opera is the longest playing musical in broadway. It began perfomances in 1988 and is still going.
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The musical made its Off-Broadway debut at The Public Theater.
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Highest grossing musical film of all time boasts a total gross of $504,014,165 and a whopping $174,750,616 at opening.
