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1880s songs (10 C, 3 P) Pages in category "1880s in music" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
David Edward Hughes (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900), was a British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. [3]
Isaac B. Woodbury publishes The Dulcimer; or, The New York Collection of Sacred Music, one of the most successful collections of Christian songs of the era. [4] One of the biggest musical stars of the day, Swedish singer Jenny Lind, demands the unheard-of sum of $187,000 from promoter P.T. Barnum to go on a national concert tour.
Arthur Farwell publishes Folk-Songs of the West and South, a collection of songs that include "The Lone Prairee", which Farwell called the first cowboy song to be printed, both words and music". [206] Robert Motts founds the first permanent black theater, in Chicago, the Pekin Theatre. [207]
Vance toured Cornwall in 1880. Writing in The Cornishman newspaper (14 October 1880), a reporter described him as a broad, not to say vulgar singer who should not be allowed to dispense to the people such songs as the London Music Halls encourage; and suggested that, "The feelings of well-disposed and peaceful citizens are outraged by the so-called improvised songs or topical allusions of this ...
1880 songs (10 P) V. Music venues completed in 1880 (6 P) Pages in category "1880 in music" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
By the 1880s, telegraph lines crisscrossed the country, connecting practically all towns and cities of all sizes. The telegraph was used for everything from sending personal messages to conducting business deals and transmitting news stories. [14] According to business historian H. W. Brands, the telegraph separated communication from ...