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The 1820s was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1820, and ended on December 31, 1829. It saw the rise of the First Industrial Revolution . Photography , rail transport , and the textile industry were among those that largely developed and grew prominent over the decade, as technology advanced significantly.
Early 1820s music trends The Boston 'Euterpiad becomes the first American periodical devoted to the parlor song. [5]The all-black African Grove theater in Manhattan begins staging with pieces by playwright William Henry Brown and Shakespeare, sometimes with additional songs and dances designed to appeal to an African American audience. [6]
This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. You can help. The talk page may contain suggestions. (July 2023) Detail from cover of The Celebrated Negro Melodies, as Sung by the Virginia Minstrels, 1843 The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century. The shows were performed by mostly white ...
Category: Entertainment companies established in the 1820s. 1 language.
This is a list of music-related events in 1820. Events. Pietro Raimondi returns to Naples and begins his career as an opera composer.
From 1820 the Cosmorama (from the Greek words kosmos and orama, meaning "world" and "scene") in St James's Street, Mayfair and later Regent Street became a fashionable meeting place. [1] It featured fourteen peepholes onto perspective scenes using large convex lenses, mirrors and special lighting to create scenic effects.
The old land and the new : the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820s. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1965. Merrill D Peterson. Democracy, liberty and property; the State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1966. Robert A. McCaughey. "From Town to City: Boston in the 1820s".
Chautauqua was considered wholesome family entertainment and appealed to middle classes and people who considered themselves respectable or aspired to respectability. Vaudeville, on the other hand, was widely considered vulgar babbitry, and appealed to working-class men. There was a stark distinction between the two, and they generally did not ...