History of Music in USA

1. USA MUSIC
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3. American music
through history
The music history of the United
States
includes
many
styles
of folk, popular and classical music.

4. Native American Music
• Consist of hundreds
of ethnic groups across
the country, each with
their own unique styles
of folk music.

5. • This was followed by the
importation of Africans
as slaves, bringing their music
with them. The Africans were
as culturally varied as the
Native Americans, descended
from hundreds of ethnic
groups in West Africa

6. American classical music
• The first music of this type in
America were the Bay psalm
books, such as the Ainsworth
Psalter, brought over from
Europe by the settlers of
the Massachusetts Bay
Colony.

7. Negro Spirituals
1700
• Black slaves included songs based on
Old Testament stories in their worship
services.

8. Music in the colonies
(1750-1800)
Consisted of mostly
theater, event, dance,
and church music.
It mains influence was
to connect with a
religion.

9. AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC
Colonial New England choirs,
and travelling singing masters
like
William Billings.

10. Here were created
techniques and traditions
like shape note, lined-out
hymnody and Sacred
Harp.
Gradually spreading south
and becoming an integral
part of the Great
Awakening.

11. th
19
century
 It was not spirituals
 Peppy comic songs performed by minstrels
in blackface, and written by legendary songwriters
like Stephen Foster and Daniel Emmett.

12. During the Civil War, popular ballads were
common, some used liberally by both the
North and the South as patriotic songs.
 Finally, late in the century, the African
American Cakewalk evolved
into ragtime, which became a North
American and European sensation.
The famous ragtime composer was Scott
Joplin through the publication in 1899 of the
“Maple Leaf Rag" .

13. Sousa
John
Sousa
Philip

15. John Philip Sousa
(1854-1932)
 He was an American composer and
conductor Of the late Romantic era,
known particularly for American military
and patriotic marches .
 He is known as "The March King" or the
"American March King“.
 Sousa composed 136 marches, 15
operettas, 70 songs and many other pieces.
 He worked as a theater musician and
conducted the U.S. Marine Band before
starting his own civilian band in 1892.
 Sousa toured with his band for 40 years
and was indisputably the most famous
musical act in the world.

16. Stars and Stripes Forever

18. Gospel
Gospel music is composed and performed
for many purposes, including aesthetic
pleasure, religious or ceremonial
purposes, and as an entertainment
product for the marketplace.

19. 19th century
The first published use of the term ″Gospel
Song" probably appeared in 1874
when Philip Bliss released a songbook
entitled Gospel Songs. A Choice
Collection of Hymns and Tunes.

20. JAZZ
1900s

21. Jazz is a music that originated at the
beginning of the 20th century, arguably
earlier, within the African-American
communities of the Southern United
States.

22. From its early development until the
present day, jazz has also incorporated
elements from popular music especially, in
its early days, from American popular
music

23. Louis Armstrong
(August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)
Nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an
American jazz Trumpeter and singer from New Orleans,
Lousiana. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an
"inventive" cornet and trumpet player, he was a
foundational influence in jazz, shifting the focus of the
music from collective
improvisation to solo performance.

25. 1920

26. • It is genre of American popular music that originated
in the rural regions of the Southern United States. It
takes its roots from southeastern American folk
music, Western cowboy.

27. First generation (1920s)
• Jimmy Rodgers was important. His songs
were first captured at a historic recording
session in Bristol , where Ralph Peer was
the talent scout and sound recordist.
• He fused hillbilly country, gospel, jazz,
blues, pop, cowboy, and folk; and many of
his best songs were his compositions,
including “Blue Yodel, which sold over a
million records and established Rodgers
as the premier singer of early country
music.

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30. 1940s and 1950s

31. 1954
Bill Haley and the comets
Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and
roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until
Haley's death in 1981.

32. Maybellene
1955s
It is a song recorded by Chuck Berry the story of a hot
rod race and a broken romance.

33. Elvis Aaron Presley
(January 8, 1935 – August 16, 197

34. “British invasion”
1964

35. Psychedelic Rock
1968s
• It is a style of rock music
inspired or influenced by psychedelic culture.
•
Attempts to replicate and enhance the mind-altering
experiences of psychedelic drugs.
• It was pioneered by musicians including The
Beatles, The Byrds, and The Yardbirds, emerging as a
genre during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues
rock bands in the United Kingdom and United States,
such as Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, The Jimi
Hendrix Experience, Cream, The Doors and Pink Floyd

36. Disco
1970s
Its initial audiences were club-goers from the African
American, LGBT, psychedelic communities in New York
City and Philadelphia during the late 1960's and early
1970s.1970's.

37. Salsa
1970s
Salsa was initially recorded, promoted, and marketed
in New York during the 1970s. Some of the founding
salsa artists include Johnny Pacheco and Celia Cruz.

38. Punk Rock
1975s
Punk bands created fast, hard-edged music, typically with
short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often
political, anti-establishment lyrics.

39. By late 1976, bands such as the Ramones, in New York
City, and the Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were
recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement.

40. lives.
Hip hop music
1978

41. POP
(August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
The “King of Pop”, or
by his initials MJ.

42. BLUES

43. VIDEO: What is the Blues Walk through
Blue Music History

44. Grammy Award

45. A Grammy Award (originally
called Gramophone Award) – or Grammy –
is an accolade by the National Academy of
Recording Arts and Sciences of the United
States to recognize outstanding achievement
in the music industry

46. It is the music equivalent to:
1. The Emmy Awards for television

47. 2. The Tony Awards for stage performances

48. 3. The Academy Awards for motion pictures.

49. • Following the 2011 ceremony, NARAS
overhauled many Grammy Award
categories for 2012. The 55th Grammy
Awards were held on February 10, 2013,
at the Staples Center in Los Angeles,
California.

50. History
• The Grammy Awards had their origin in
the Hollywood Walk of Fame project in the
1950s.
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51. Grammy Awards 2013
Winners
• VIDEO: grammy awards history part 1
• VIDEO: Grammys An Animated History

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