1. Music Cultural Heritage of the USA Music

2. Diversity of music in the US

3. Education The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory. It is located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a conservatory and preparatory school. It is located in the Mount Vernon in Maryland. The Music Academy of the West is a music conservatory. It is located in Montecito.

4. Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of New York.

5. Great American songbook It is the book with the best American songs For a period from the 1920s to 1960s Music of Broadway theatre, musical theatre, Hollywood musicals

6. Billboard Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry. It is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It contains music charts track the most popular songs.

7. Labels There are 4 most powerful company in the world: Universal Music Group Sony BMG Music Entertainment EMI Group Warner Music Group

8. Musical styles blues jazz rhythm and blues soul rock and roll country music hip hop pop music

9. Blues Also called “Work songs” John Lee Hooker B. B. King

10. Jazz “No America, no jazz.” Art Blakey Louis Armstrong Фрэнк Синатра

11. Rhythm and blues Roy Brown Big Joe Turner

12. Soul James BrownTina Turner

13. Rock and roll Elvis Presley Carl Perkins

14. Country music Johnny Cash Garth Brooks

15. Hip Hop Also called Rap Cypress Hill Snoop Dogg

16. Pop music Madonna Whitney Houston

17. References http://houserock.ru/ http://orpheusmusic.ru/ http://wikipedia.org/