Survey of America

By loriondo

  • Benjamin Franklin invents the Glass Harmonica

  • Billings New England Psalm Singer

  • Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key's lyrics)

  • Period: to

    Trail of Tears

    US Government removed the southeastern native americans for the purpose of mining gold. The native americans were relocated to reservations in Oklahoma
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    PT Barnum/Jenny Lind US tour (date range)

  • Gottschalk The Banjo

  • Slave Songs of the United States (date published; also significance)

    The first time spirituals were captured in written form.
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    Carnegie Hall, New York (completed)

  • Dvorak String Quartet "American"

  • Amy Beach Gaelic Symphony (composed)

  • Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag

  • WC Handy St. Louis Blues

  • Cajun: (1st commercial recording)

  • Florence Price Symphony No.1

  • Period: to

    Copland El Salón México

  • "God Bless America" (Kate Smith's Original Recording)

  • Bluegrass Appears

  • Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial

  • Duke Ellington's "Cottontail"

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    Broadway's 1st Golden Age (range)

  • "This Land is Your Land" (Guthrie's Recording)

  • “We Shall Overcome” (when adopted by the Civil Rights mvt)

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    John Cage Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

  • Folk Song U.S.A.: the 111 Best American Ballads (date published; also significance)

    Alan Lomax travelled around America, discovering the folk songs of different regions and how they were connected

  • Alan Freed

    Year he coined Rock and Roll

  • Bernstein West Side Story (Broadway premiere)

  • Miles Davis' Kind of Blue

  • Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album

  • Beach Boys “Good Vibrations”

  • Dolly Parton "Coat of Many Colors"

  • Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"

  • "Walk This Way" Video (Aerosmith and Run DMC)

  • John Adams The Death of Klinghoffer

  • James Horner Soundtrack for Titanic

  • Miranda Hamilton (Premiere)

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