Pilgrimage to Music Part 4: 1910s Music Facts & Events

1912 William Spiller's band, the Musical Spillers, export ragtime to Britain
The first blues is published, Hart Wand's Dallas Blues



1914 Jerome Kern invents the "musical" by integrating music, drama and ballet and setting it into the present

The American Society for Composers (ASCAP) is founded to protect songwriters



1915 The 'Chicago Automatic Machine & Tool Company' invents the jukebox.





 1916 The first record to be advertised as "samba" is Ernesto Joaquim Maria dos Santos, better known as "Donga", Pelo Telefone



Piano makers Brunswick start a record label


1917 The first jazz record is cut in New York

1918 James Europe's Hellfighters export jazz to France

1919 General Electric absorbs the American branch of Marconi Wireless Telegraph and renames it Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

 Will Marion Cook's syncopated orchestra plays jazz for King George V  in Britain



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