Timeline

1900–1919 ∼ Changing Culture and Wartime Years

Rise of ragtime / Cohan’s musicals / Development of dissonance / Emergence of the Country Blues

MILESTONES: Director D.W. Griffith produces the first feature length film, The Great Train Robbery, which lasted eleven minutes (1903) • Last yellow fever epidemic in the U.S. strikes New Orleans (1905) • Gibson Girl anticipates the modern woman’s wardrobe (1909) • First voice communication by radio (1914)

1920–1929 ∼ The Jazz Age

Tin Pan Alley Music Publishers / Irving Berlin’s songwriting / Cole Porter’s sophisticated songwriting / Harlem Renaissance / Experimental art music / Louis Armstrong and King Oliver / Development of “Stride” Piano Music / Trend Toward “Sweet Jazz” / Urban or Vaudeville Blues / Hillbilly Music / Rise in recording and radio broadcast

MILESTONES: Commercial sponsors advertise on radio programs (1920s) • Helena Rubenstein and Elizabeth Arden start their cosmetic business (early 1920s) • Bessie...