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Timeline Of Music In The United States (1880–1919)
This is a timeline of music in the United States from 1880 to 1919. 1880 *George Upton's "Women in Music" is the "first of many articles and reviews by prominent male critics which sought to trivialize and undermine the achievements of what was considered an alarming number of new women composers in the realm of 'serious' classical music". *The Native American Sun Dance is banned. *John Knowles Paine's second symphony, ''In Spring'', premiers in Boston, and is "received with unparalleled success". *Gussie Lord Davis has his first hit with "We Sat Beneath the Maple on the Hill", making him the first African American songwriter to succeed in Tin Pan Alley. *Patrick Gilmore's Twenty-Second Regimental Band becomes the first fully professional ensemble of any kind in the country to be engaged in performances full-time, year-round. 1881 *Henry Lee Higginson forms the Boston Symphony Orchestra; Higginson would personally run the Orchestra for almost four decades.Crawford, pg. 311 *Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Dance
The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced by some Native Americans in the United States and Indigenous peoples in Canada, primarily those of the Plains Indians, Plains cultures, as well as a new movement within Native American religions. Members of otherwise independent bands gather to reaffirm beliefs about the world and the supernatural through rituals of personal and community sacrifice. Typically, young men would dance semi-continuously for several days and nights without eating or drinking; in some cultures Mortification_of_the_flesh#Indigenous_practices_and_shamanism, self-mortification is/was also practiced. After European colonization of the Americas, and with the formation of the Canada, Canadian and United States governments, both countries passed laws intended to suppress Indigenous cultures and force assimilation to Christianity and majority-Anglo-Americans, Anglo-American culture. The Sun Dance was one of the prohibited ceremonies, as was the potlatch of the Pacific No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
