Pilgrimage in Music Part 2: 19th Century Music Facts & Events

1892 Popular music becomes big business and music publishers rent offices around Union Square in New York City, an area that is renamed "Tin Pan Alley" (sheet music is the primary "product" of popular music and the industry is dominated by music publishing houses)

1893 Kerry Mills's Rastus On Parade is the first published cakewalk


1894 The weekly Billboard magazine begins publication, offering "charts" of music sales

1895 Ben Harney's You've Been a Good Old Wagon is the first ragtime piece to be published.
The first jazz band, the Spasm Band, first performs in New Orleans
Gugliemo Marconi invents the radio

1898 Emile Berliner sells the European rights to the gramophone to the Gramophone Company or HMV (His Master's Voice)

1899 Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag (1899) starts the ragtime craze




For a most detailed music timeline, you can visit www.scaruffi.com/music