1900–1919 Popular Music: Ragtime, Broadway Songs, Patriotic Music, Irish Ballads, Early Blues, Tin Pan Alley, and Songs Before Radio Took OverPopular music from 1900 to 1919 lived in a different world than the hit songs that came later. Before commercial radio became part of everyday American life in the 1920s, most people heard songs through […]
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1800s Popular Music: Folk Songs, Hymns, Marches, Children’s Songs, Classical Favorites, Minstrel-Era Songs, and Music People Still Know Popular music in the 1800s did not spread through radio, streaming, records, or television. Most people heard music in churches, at parlor pianos, at public concerts, from military bands, minstrel shows, vaudeville-style entertainment, family singing, in schoolrooms,
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