Pilgrimage in Music Part 3: Early 1900s Music Facts & Events

1901 Emile Berliner founds the record label Victor Talking Machines

1903 Will-Marion Cook's musical revue exports cakewalk to Britain

1906 Thaddeus Cahill builds the first electronic instrument

1908 Cubism is the new fad in Paris

1909 The term "jazz" is used for the first time in the song Uncle Josh in Society (but it refers to ragtime)

1910 350,000 pianos are manufactured in the USA


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