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Pages in category "1920s songs" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
American Epic: The Collection is a 100-track, 5-CD box set of American roots music performances from the 1920s and 1930s. It was compiled by film director Bernard MacMahon to accompany the release of his American Epic documentary film series. [1]
American folk music is a broad category of music including bluegrass, gospel, old time music, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Cajun and Native American music. [ not verified in body ] The music is considered American either because it is native to the United States or because it developed there, out of foreign origins, to such a degree that ...
A&W (song) Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway; Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round; Alberta (blues) All About You (Hilary Duff song) All God's Chillun Got Wings (song) All My Trials; All the Pretty Little Horses; All-American Bitch; Amen (gospel song) American Life (song) Animal Fair (song) Apples and Bananas; Arcadia (Lana Del Rey song) The ...
Each song tells a story about a specific event or time, and Smith may have made some effort to organize them to suggest a historical narrative, a theory suggested by the fact that many of the first songs in this volume are old English folk ballads while the closing songs deal with the hardships of being a farmer in the 1920s. The first record ...
The "Songs of the Century" list is part of an education project by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. that aims to "promote a better understanding of America's musical and cultural heritage" in American schools.
A traditional singer, also known as a source singer, is someone who has learned folk songs in the oral tradition, usually from older people within their community.. From around the beginning of the twentieth century, song collectors such as Cecil Sharp went to rural areas to collect traditional songs.
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...