MUSIC 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Irving Berlin, Ragtime, New York Philharmonic
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Tin pan alley was inseparably linked to theater, because at the time, theater was the most effective of introducing music to the public. In the 19th century, america began to create its own distinctive of musical theater. Forms of musical theater in the 19th century. The first important commercialized form of african-american music was the minstrel show, a pre to american musical comedy. It was the product of the common man"s culture and acknowledgem the tastes of average americans. The music was a blend of black and white cultures. It was a comm language between different ethnic backgrounds that shared economic and social status. Minstrelsy centered on white actors characterizing blacks, and although racist, it also represented the fact that and white lower-class americans had many things in common. In the beginning, minstrel music of the 1820s through the 1840s was analogous to the class-consci punk rebellion of england in the 1970s.
