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Showing posts with label Pilgrimage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pilgrimage. Show all posts
Monday, May 2, 2011

Pilgrimage to Music Part 7 : 1930 -1933 Music Facts & Events

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1930 Warner Brothers buys Brunswick 1931 ' Adolph Rickenbacker' invents the electric guitar. Known as the Frying Pan, it was a ...

Pilgrimage to Music Part 8 : 1934 -1937 Music Facts & Events

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1934 John Lomax and his son Alan begin recording black music of the southern states, and discover the gospel genre of "rocking and re...

Pilgrimage to Music Part 9 : 1938 -1939 Music Facts & Events

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1938 John Hammond stages the "Spirituals To Swing" concert in New York City Carnegie Hall to highlight black musical styles. Th...
Monday, April 25, 2011

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

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

Pilgrimage in Music Part 5: 1920 -1925 Music Facts & Events

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1920 Mamie Smith's Crazy Blues is the first blues by a black singer to become a nation-wide hit Westinghouse Electric starts the fi...

Pilgrimage in Music Part 6: 1926-1929 Music Facts & Events

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1926 Bing Crosby cuts his first record and invents the "crooning" style of singing thanks to a new kind of microphone. Crosby...
Monday, April 18, 2011

An Endless Pilgrimage To Music

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There are two different ways to look at the history of music... both of which are valid for me. One way is to view the objective as it is ...

Pilgrimage in Music Part 1: 19th Century Music Facts & Events

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1860 Eduard-Leon Scott invents the phonautograph and makes the first visual recording of sound 1867 The first collection of "Slave S...

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

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1892 Popular music becomes big business and music publishers rent offices around Union Square in New York City, an area that is renamed ...

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

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1901 Emile Berliner founds the record label Victor Talking Machines 1903 Will-Marion Cook's musical revue exports cakewalk to Brit...