1. History of Popular Music LATE 19 TH CENTURY TO EARLY 20 TH CENTURY

2. The Minstrel Show  First form of musical and theatrical entertainment that was distinctly American  Featured mainly white performers doing “blackface” routines

3. George Washington Dixon 180?-1861  1 st white performer to establish a reputation as a blackface entertainer

4. Thomas Dartmouth Rice 1808-1860  His song, “Jim Crow” became the 1 st American hit that became an international success

5. Early Popular Songwriter – Stephen Collins Foster  1 st important composer of American popular songs  Oh! Susanna  Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

6. Tin Pan Alley  Located on 28 th Street in New York City  Publishing companies

7. Vaudeville  Popular theatrical form descended from music hall and minstrel shows, mainly using music from Tin Pan Alley  Consisted of singers, acrobats, comedians, jugglers, dancers, animal handlers, etc…

8. Ragtime (1896-1918)  Heavily influenced by African American music traditions  “rag” means to liven up a piece of music by shifting melodic accents onto the off beats

9. Scott Joplin (1868-1917)  Best known ragtime composer  The Entertainer  The Maple Leaf Rag

10. Phonograph  Invented in 1877 by Thomas Alva Edison

11. New Technology  1925 – 1 st recording with a microphone  1926 – 1 st nationwide commercial radio network – NBC  CBS and ABC soon followed  By 1927, there were over 1,000 radio stations

12. “The Jazz Singer” 1927  1 st film to successfully use sound

13. ASCAP - 1914  American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers  To force business establishments that featured live music to pay fees (royalties) for the public use of music

14. Jazz  Emerged in New Orleans around 1900  Known then as the “African Americanization” of ballroom dance

15. Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)  Nicknamed “Satchmo”  What a Wonderful World (1967)

16. Duke Ellington (1899-1974)  Known as the most important American Musician of the 20 th century  It Don’t Mean a Thing