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February 27 – Eliška Kleinová, pianist and music teacher (died 1999) March 11 – Xavier Montsalvatge, composer and music critic (died 2002) March 14 – Les Brown, US bandleader (died 2001) March 15 – Lightnin' Hopkins, blues musician (died 1982) March 24 – Sari Biro, pianist (died 1990) March 27 – Robert Hughes, composer (died 2007)
28 – Dave Barbour, American guitarist (died 1965). June. 15 – Alix Combelle, French tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader (died 1978). 26 – Clarence Profit, American pianist and composer (died 1944). [4] July. 8 – Johnny Mince, American clarinetist (died 1997). 12 – Will Bradley, American trombonist and bandleader (died 1989).
1912 in music, 1912 in British music, 1912 in Norwegian music – Birth of Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Cage; 1911 in music, 1911 in British music, 1911 in Norwegian music – Birth of Robert Johnson, Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden, Death of Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor
July 13 – Ed Sherman, American football player, coach (died 2009) July 14 Woody Guthrie, folk musician ("This Land Is Your Land") (died 1967) Buddy Moreno, American musician (died 2015) July 17 – Art Linkletter, television host (House Party) (died 2010) July 28 – George Cisar, screen character actor (died 1979) July 31
Timeline of music in the United States; To 1819; 1820–1849; 1850–1879; 1880–1919; 1920–1949; 1950–1969; 1970–present; Music history of the United States; Colonial era – to the Civil War – During the Civil War – Late 19th century – 1900–1940 – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s
The publication of Francis O'Neill's O'Neill's Music is a milestone in Irish American music history. [195] J. Berni Barbour and N. Clark Smith found the "first relatively permanent (African American) music publishing" company, in Chicago; it is also "probably the first black-owned music publishing company in history". [196]
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 ...
Modern Native American pow wows arose around the turn of the 20th century. While some claim that pow wow had been an integral part of indigenous cultures for over 10 centuries, some modern analysts believe that pow wows were invented to appeal to tourists and had only a tangential relationship to genuine Native American traditions, which generally revolved around ceremonial dance music like ...