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Your search for: 1920s AND american AND music


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Books on: 1920s american music

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Journal Articles on: 1920s american music

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Magazine Articles on: 1920s american music

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Newspaper Articles on: 1920s american music

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    Four 'Americans in Paris' and Their 1920s Modernity
    Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, May 5, 1996
    Subjects: 
    Paris, France, Ray, Man
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Four Americans in Paris and their 1920s modernity by Joanna...few years later four American artists - Man Ray...Its fitting that their 1920s photographs, films...anniversary exhibition, "Americans in Paris." It was...the exhibit features music by Baker, Duke Ellington...
     
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    Oregon Festival of American Music
    Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 27, 2006
    Subjects: 
    Annie Get Your Gun (Play), Berlin, Irving
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Oregon Festival of American Music. Byline: The Register...and ``Lets Face the Music and Dance. 2:30 p...concert - In ``Say It With Music: Irving Berlins History...Stone - On ``Say It With Music: The 1920s in Review with accompaniment...
     
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    Folk Music Recordist Made MI5 See Reds in the Valleys
    Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 4, 2007
    Subjects: 
    Folk music, Sound recordings
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1950s keeping tabs on an American folk music expert they suspected...Lomax, who had a BBC TV music show, was spied on by...which drew together folk music from the coal mining...Communist Party in the 1920s and 1930s, and continued...
     
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    Paying Homage to U Street; Corridor Holds Rich History of Music Trends
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), October 14, 2009
    Subjects: 
    Harlem renaissance, Jackson, Michael (American pop singer)--Appreciation
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Corridor Holds Rich History of Music Trends. Byline: Sandra Butler...when it opened in the early 1920s. The corridor and its block...lived and worked together. The music industry was similarly diverse...anything you want to know about music genres, and he wandered aloud...
     
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    Life in the 1920s - Surrounded by Song
    Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 22, 2010
    Subjects: 
    Singers
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Life in the 1920s - Surrounded by Song...in North Wales in the 1920s. Beginning today, Alun...Songbird is Singing is a music-filled memoir of his...swarming in, giving news of American life in the era of gangster...acre holding in the 1920s. I was five years old...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: 1920s american music

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    Country and Western Music
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    COUNTRY AND WESTERN MUSIC American popular music form originating in the Southeast (country music) and the Southwest and West (western music). The two regional styles coalesced in the 1920s when recorded material became available...
     
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    Cowell, Henry Dixon
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...kou l, 1897 1965, American composer and pianist...Banshee from the mid-1920s, played directly on...founded (1927) New Music Edition, a quarterly publishing music by contemporary American...piano pieces, band music, and vocal and chamber...
     
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    KŘenek, Ernst
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1900 1991, Austrian-American composer, b. Vienna...Berlin, and in the early 1920s he composed chamber music, a violin concerto...technique (see serial music ) originated by Arnold...orchestral, and choral music and wrote the operas...
     
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    Van Vechten, Carl
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...van vek t n, 1880 1964, American music critic, novelist, and photographer...While he was a leading music critic in New York City, he wrote The Music of Spain (1918) and other...sophisticated style of the 1920s, are Peter Whiffle (1922...
     
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    Henderson, Fletcher
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...James Fletcher "Smack" Henderson), 1898 1952, American jazz composer, arranger, and pianist, b. Cuthbert...graduate chemistry, he took a job with W. C. Handys music company. During the 1920s and 30s, Henderson led superbly dynamic jazz orchestras...
     

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