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History of the Recording Industry
Final Exam Review
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History
Undergraduate 3
12/13/2011

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first form of music distinctly american
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minstrelsy & blackface
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* 1st white "blackfaced" performer
- ethiopian songs
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goerge washington dixon
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group formed in 1843?

- long performances

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Virginia Minstrels
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group formed in 1844?
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Christy Minstrels
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white banjo guy in the VA minstrel group
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Dan Emmett
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- copied Jim Crow song and dance from slave

* 1st native born American performer to export solely "american style" music

- Zip Coon, Turkey in the straw

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Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice
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* 1st important composer of American pop. song

* 1st to sign contracts for royalties and support himself as sw

not wealthiest, but most influential sw of 1800s
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Stephen Foster
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broadway show In Dahomey
*1st full-length black broadway musical ever
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Bert Williams
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exceptions to mostly white minstrel performers
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Bert Williams & Walker
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*1st machine to record sound, created by?
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phonautograph, Scott
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separately invented in 77, what device and what inventors
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Edison & Cros, phonograph
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86, originally a dictation device, invetors
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graphophone, Tainter & Bell
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