MUSIC 151 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Al Jolson, Matt Dennis, Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Tin pan alley was inseparably linked to theater, because at the time, theater was the most effective means of introducing music to the public. In the 19th century, america began to create its own distinctive form 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 precursor to. It was the product of the common man"s culture and acknowledgement of the tastes of average americans. The music was a blend of black and white cultures. It was a common 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 black 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-conscious punk rebellion of england in the 1970s.
