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1700s	Slave trade brings West African rhythms, chants and song structures to America, which leads to the advent of blues, jazz and negro spirituals.
1831	Popular circus clown Dan Rice blackens his face to perform "negro songs" for a variety show in New York's Bowery district and sets off the minstrelsy craze.
1851	Stephen Foster writes Old Folks At Home, based on an Ethiopian melody.
1877	First practical phonograph invented.
1896	Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb bring West Indian rhythms to European progressions to create a uniquely American popular music form called ragtime.
1897	Buddy Bolden organizes first band in New Orleans to play instrumental blues.
1900	The Spanish, French, blues and ragtime music all the rage on Mississippi river boats moves into New Orleans brothels and honkytonk bars, where it later becomes known as jazz.
1902	Teenaged sporting house pianist Jelly Roll Morton claims to be the first to play this so-called jazz music.
1912	Bandleader and composer William Christopher Handy writes and publishes Memphis Blues, giving rise to the classic blues era.
1916	Charles Albert Tindley becomes the first published black gospel composer with the release of New Songs Of Paradise, a songbook of 37 gospel hymns.
1917	The era of jazz recording is launched in New York with Livery Stable Blues, by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
1919	New Orleans trumpeter Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton make Chicago the new capital of jazz music.
1920	Prohibition. Jazz and blues music flourishes in speakeasys everywhere. Marnie Smith's recording of Crazy Blues becomes the first "race" record to sell over 250,000 copies.
1922	Jazz pianist/composer Duke Ellington forms the Duke Ellington Orchestra in New York.
1923	Bessie Smith's first song, Down Hearted Blues, is an instant hit, and Smith becomes "Queen of the Blues."
1924	George Gershwin composes symphonic jazz piece Rhapsody In Blue, leading jazz out of the clubs and into concert halls for the first time.
1925	WSM Barn Dance begins Saturday radio broadcasts of country and western music. Program becomes known as Grand Ole Opry. Lovesick Blues recorded by minstrel singer Emmett Miller, inspiring Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers and Merle Haggard. The 78 rpm record becomes the industry standard.
1927	LOUIS ARMSTRONG brings new relevance to the role of the soloist in jazz with his Hot Fives and Sevens.
1928	Victor label holds first recording session in Nashville, featuring black Opry star DeFord Bailey, but only half of his songs are released and he's short-changed on royalties.
1929	Stock market crash brings on the Great Depression.
1930	First commercially available "long-playing" records are introduced by Victor but don't catch on due to lack of affordable playback units. Columbia has more success with its microgroove LPs in 1948.
1931	The dramatic improvement in ROBERT JOHNSON's guitar playing is attributed by fellow Mississippi bluesmen to a deal with the devil.
1932	Duke Ellington's It Don�t Mean A Thing If It Ain�t Got That Swing kicks off the swing era. Blues pianist/composer Thomas A. Dorsey writes Take My Hand, Precious Lord and embarks on a new career as the "father of gospel music."
1933	Columbia Records impresario John Hammond discovers BILLIE HOLIDAY at Monette�s in New York.
1936	Electric guitars debut.
1938	Sister Rosetta Tharpe takes gospel out of the church and brings the spirit to secular music venues like New York's Cotton Club and Cafe Society. Saxophonist Louis Jordan leaves Chick Webb's orchestra to start his own jump band, the Tympany Five, whose sound is a precursor of rock 'n' roll.
1939	Saxophonist Charlie Parker, while jamming on Cherokee, hits on a new method of soloing by building on the chords' extended intervals, starting the bebop movement. Charlie Christian brings the electric guitar to new prominence while sitting in with Benny Goodman. Oscar Peterson wins CBC amateur contest at 14 and gets a regular 15-minute gig playing live on the air.
1941	Travelling folkloricist Alan Lomax records MUDDY WATERS on Stovall's Plantation in Mississippi. Saxophonist Lester Young gives beat generation writer Jack Kerouac his first joint.
1949	First 45 rpm 7-inch singles appear in the U.S.
1951	Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed uses the term "rock 'n' roll� to help sell the black rhythm and blues music he's playing for a white audience. Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm cut Rocket 88, generally considered the first rock 'n' roll record. Bill Haley records a cover of Rocket 88 three months later. Richard cops Turner's piano intro to Rocket 88 note for note for his own Good Golly Miss Molly.
1952	Phil and Leonard Chess lets recent signee Muddy Waters go into the studio with his own band and they create an electrifying new urban blues sound.
1954	Bill Haley and the Comets start scoring million selling hits by whitening up already popular R&B tunes like Big Joe Turner's Shake, Rattle And Roll. Pat Boone takes note. Elvis Presley records a version of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup's That's All Right Mama as his debut single for Sun Records. The style of rhythmically propulsive hillbilly holler catches on quickly with the kids.
1955	Chuck Berry secures a recording deal with Chess by performing a cover of Bob Wills�s western swing classic Ida Red, which he soon transforms into the number-one chart hit Maybellene. Sun Ra and Cecil Taylor make their first recordings as bandleaders.
1957	Entrepreneurial R&B crooner Sam Cooke lays the foundation for the 60s soul boom by using the proceeds of his hit song You Send Me to start his own label, publishing imprint and management firm. CHARLES MINGUS records The Clown and East Coasting. Norman Mailer publishes The White Negro.
1958	Modern amplified rhythm and blues is introduced to England by Chuck Berry on a UK tour. A teenaged Keith Richards is listening.
1959	Former Detroit assembly line worker Berry Gordy Jr. founds the Motown label and begins mass-marketing black popular music with help from the Miracles, Mabel John, Andre Williams and Marvin Gaye. Ornette Coleman records Tomorrow Is The Question, Change Of The Century and the presciently titled The Shape Of Jazz To Come, setting the stage for the era of free jazz.
1960	Tired of playing sideman, John Coltrane forms a quartet of his own and touches off the new thing movement.
1963	The Beatles and the Rolling Stones take over the UK charts by playing in the style of their favourite American R&B and blues artists.
1966	ARETHA FRANKLIN can't buy a hit until Jerry Wexler records her accompanying herself on piano.
1967	Jimi Hendrix Experience blows minds of musicians on both sides of the Atlantic with Are You Experienced?
1970	The Last Poets release their self-titled debut, featuring a confrontational mix of shouted poetry and jazz drumming that presaged rap music. Black Spades gang leader Kahyan Aasim, aka Afrika Bambaataa, begins to DJ parties mixing a wide assortment of musical styles. David Mancuso begins "invitation only" parties in New York, later known as The Loft. Creates concept of DJ record pool laying groundwork for disco boom.
1971	Isaac Hayes composes, arranges, produces and records the symphonic soul soundtrack to Shaft, which becomes number-one pop album and wins him an Oscar. Marvin Gaye's socially conscious concept album What's Going On proves a huge seller despite Berry Gordy Jr.'s doubts.
1972	Not to be outdone, Curtis Mayfield creates the Superfly soundtrack, a number-one pop and R&B chart smash.
1973	Jamaican �migr� Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell applies his knowledge of Kingston soundsystems to rock block parties in the South Bronx, using two turntables to extend the length of beat-heavy "break" sections of soul and funk records.
1974	Inspired by Jamaican toasting, the concept of emceeing begins with shouts of "to the beat, y'all!"
1975	Coke La Rock and Clark Kent form the first emcee duo, giving Run and DMC an alternative to pizza delivery.
1976	Disco flourishes. Larry Levan starts spinning at New York's Paradise Garage bringing new prominence to the DJ as artist.
1977	Frankie Knuckles gives up textile design studies to take DJ gig at Chicago's Warehouse club. Thumping drum machine-based music he plays becomes known as house.
1979	The Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight becomes the first commercial rap hit. The Fatback Band's release of the rap song King Tim III creates controversy over the "first rap record" for decades to come.
1980	Blondie releases Rapture, which despite Debbie Harry's corny rhymes, introduces rap to a whole new audience.
1981	Arrival of MTV music video station puts new emphasis on the visual presentation of music. Juan Atkins releases electronic dance single Alleys Of Your Mind under the name Cybertron copped from Alvin Toffler's Future Shock. He uses another Toffler term to describe the music: techno.
1982	Michael Jackson's Thriller is released and sells 25 million copies, making it the top-selling album in history. First star of the Grand Ole Opry, DeFord Bailey, dies penniless, never inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force's Planet Rock uses samples of Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express to become first global electro hit.
1983	Compact discs are introduced and soon become the industry standard. Herbie Hancock cuts Rockit, which becomes the first jazz/hiphop crossover hit. AFRIKA BAMBAATAA's Looking For The Perfect Beat ushers in the sampling era.
1986	Eric B and Rakim's game-changing Eric B Is President forces all aspiring rappers to raise their skills. Run DMC's reconstruction of Aerosmith's Walk This Way puts rap on the pop charts and MTV.
1987	The term "world music" is coined by the music biz to market African and Latin music to the masses.
1988	The sample-rich sound 0f PUBLIC ENEMY's It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back�s sets a new production standard. NWA's Straight Outta Compton goes gold, signalling the arrival of gangsta rap.
1989	Maestro Fresh Wes's Let Your Backbone Slide becomes the top-selling Canadian hiphop single ever. Toronto's K-Cut and Sir Scratch join Queens pals Large Professor and Mikey D as Main Source to record Think single.
1991	Dream Warriors put Canadian hiphop on the map with And Now The Legacy Begins. Main Source release their classic Breaking Atoms album.
1993	New York's Hot 97 switches from dance format to hiphop, launching the career of Funkmaster Flex.
1996	Rapper TUPAC SHAKUR is shot four times while leaving the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Dies six days later in hospital. Scribble Jam begins showcasing unknown underground rappers like Sage Francis and Eminem.
1997	Notorious B.I.G. is shot to death in his car after the Soul Train Awards. Miraculously, Suge Knight survives the attack. Memorex, Maxell and TDK introduce blank recordable CDs.
2000	The Internet transforms the way music is diseminated and heard. Invisible Scratch Picklz break up, putting the final nail in the coffin of turntablism.
2001	FLOW 93.5 becomes Canada's first urban radio station.
2002	Hiphop dominates the mainstream: Eminem's The Eminem Show and Nelly's Nellyville rank as two top-selling albums of the year, far outperforming releases by Celine Dion, Pink and the Dixie Chicks.
2003	Othar Turner, perhaps the last living original fife-and-drum musician, dies at 94 in Mississippi.
2004	Ray Charles dies of liver disease at the age of 73. With the release of Confessions, Usher becomes the first R&B singer to sell in excess of 1.1 million discs in first week. Jay-Z's unlikely collabo with Linkin Park on Collision Course debuts at number one and becomes the biggest-selling CD/DVD package of the year.
2005	Destiny's Child announce breakup. 50 Cent's The Massacre edges out Eminem's Encore as the top-selling album of the year.
2006	Three 6 Mafia become the first hiphop group to win an Oscar for their contribution to the Hustle & Flow soundtrack. Jodeci, X-Clan and Bone Thugs-n-Harmony reunite.
2007	Canadian jazz great Oscar Peterson dies of kidney failure at the age of 82. Rock 'n' roll architect Ike Turner dies at 76.

Every day is Black Music Appreciation Month in my house...including this morning...

Nice one schlomo.

FOR four centuries, from the arrival of the first Blacks in English America in 1619 to the hip-hops of the Millennium, African-Americans have dominated American music and dance. Black music, in fact, is America's only original music, and the Spirituals-Blues-Jazz-Gospel-Charleston-Twist-Hip Hop gift is the foundation not only of rhythm and blues but also of Broadway, the Grammys and Elvis et al. And we can say of this gift what Virgil Thomson said of jazz: It is "the most astounding spontaneous musical event to take place anywhere since the Reformation." Here, then, in honor of Black (American) Music Month are 25--we could have listed 1,000--of the greatest moments of a creative process that started more than 300 years ago and that is--miraculously--still going on in the Harlems and South Sides of our mind.

1 1660-1860. In the most stupendously creative act in American cultural history, the "Black and unknown bards" of slavery created the Spirituals and the foundations of the blues and American dance. Everything that followed--Broadway, the Grammys, Gershwin, the Cakewalk, the Moonwalk, the Electric Slide--is an elaboration on the original.

2 1870s-1920s. Creation of blues by post-slavery Blacks in Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, everywhere, led to the first written blues, "The Memphis Blues," published in 1912, and great blues singers like MA RAINEY and BESSIE SMITH.

3 1890s-1920s. Invention of jazz music, a collective creation by Blacks in Louisiana, Texas, Missouri and other places, followed by creative syntheses by great individual performers like BUDDY BOLDEN, JELLY ROLL MORTON, LOUIS ARMSTRONG and others. On November 11, 1925, Louis Armstrong recorded the first of the Hot Five and Hot Seven recordings that defined the rhythmic and improvisational foundation of jazz.

4 1900. JAMES WELDON JOHNSON and J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON composed "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," the African-American National Anthem, for a high school pageant in Jacksonville, Fla.

5 February 14, 1920. MAMIE SMITH recorded the first major "race record," "That Thing Called Love" and "A Good Man is Hard to Find," for Okeh Records. BESSIE SMITH and other artists sold a phenomenal number of records and ensured the survival of Columbia and other recording companies.

6 May 23, 1921. Shuffle Along, first of a series of popular musicals featuring Black talent, opened at the 63rd Street Musical Hall in New York and Blacks began to invent Broadway or, at a minimum, Broadway musical culture. Two years later, on October 29, 1923, Runnin' Wild opened at Colonial Theatre on Broadway, introducing America's first dance hit, the Charleston, to the world.

7 1925. PAUL ROBESON made his debut as a bass-baritone in the Greenwich Village Theatre (Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians), "singing the first concert consisting solely of Negro spirituals."

8 December 4, 1927. DUKE ELLINGTON opened at the Cotton Club, Harlem's Jim Crow musical magnet, marking the formal beginning of the Swing Age and the Age of the Big Bands of COUNT BASIE, ERKSKINE HAWKINS, JIMMY LUNCEFORD and, later, BILLY ECKSTINE. Ellington, who was arguably America's greatest composer, extended the harmonic and structural dimensions of jazz, which has been called America's classical music.

9 1930s. New Black urban migrants redefined church music, giving it a rhythm and passion that THOMAS DORSEY, the "Father of Gospel Music," put down on paper and SALLIE MARTIN and, later, MAHALIA JACKSON sang. Black music expert Eileen Southern said, "In addition to inventing a name for the new sacred music of black Americans, organizing its first chorus, its first annual convention, and founding its first publishing house, [Dorsey] is credited with establishing the tradition of the gospel music concert."

10 Easter Sunday Morning, 1939. MARIAN ANDERSON, denied permission to sing in Constitution Hall because of her race, gave an open-air concert endorsed by the White House on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before a crowd of 75,000 persons. She had previously triumphed in European concerts where Arturo Toscanini heard her and said: "Yours is a voice such as one hears once in a hundred years."

11 1945. CHARLIE PARKER and DIZZY GILLESPIE brought their musical groups to New York's 52nd Street, inaugurating the Be-Bop age and changing the structure and harmonic foundations of modern jazz.

12 1954 and 1955. RICHARD (LITTLE RICHARD) PENNIMAN recorded "Tutti Frutti," and CHUCK BERRY recorded "Maybelline," followed by other recordings by Black artists (BIG MAYBELLE, WILSON PICKETT and others) who influenced the Beatles and Elvis Presley and played major roles in the development of rock `n' roll.

13 1956. THE NAT KING COLE SHOW, the first television variety show to star a Black entertainer, made its debut and ran for 64 weeks on NBC-TV, featuring the musical talents of Cole, who also played a formidable jazz piano, and other Black and White musical giants. Cole, who was perhaps America's first major crossover pop artist, sold millions of records and helped ensure the success of Capitol Records and other White cultural media.

14 January 7, 1955. MARIAN ANDERSON opened at the Metropolitan Opera House in Verdi's Masked Ball, paving the way for Leontyne Price, Simon Estes, Jessye Norman and the Black opera stars who followed.

15 December 1955-1968. Freedom music, based on the whoops, hollers and affirmations of the Black Spiritual-gospel-blues-jazz tradition, annealed and transformed African-Americans and their allies in the 10,000 mass meetings, marches, vigils and protests of the Freedom Movement, which was the biggest U.S. social movement of the 20th century and which influenced singers in Soweto, Eastern Europe and Tiananmen Square. Major Black singers sang in the chorus or the choir of the Movement, notably MAHALIA JACKSON ("I Been 'Buked and I Been Scorned"), HARRY BELAFONTE ("Matilda"), Aretha Franklin ("R-E-S-P-E-C-T"), SAMMY DAVIS JR. ("Mr. Bojangles"), JAMES BROWN ("I'm Black and I'm Proud"), CURTIS MAYFIELD ("Keep on Pushin'"), SAM COOKE ("A Change Is Gonna Come"), NINA SIMONE ("What are we going to do now, now that the King of Love is Dead?"), BERNICE REAGAN ("Before I'd be a slave, I'd be buried in my grave and go home to my Lord and be free").

16 1957. SAM COOKE, a well-known gospel singer, crossed over into what some called "rhythm and blues," recording "You Send Me," which marked the beginning of the transitional period leading to soul music.

17 March 2, 1959, and April 22, 1959. MILES DAVIS recorded Kind of Blue, "a milestone in jazz history," which changed the directions of modern American music.

18 December 17, 1959. Motown Records was founded by BERRY GORDY JR., who gave the world the JACKSON 5, the SUPREMES, STEVIE WONDER and MARVIN GAYE, and who helped change the understanding, marketing and promotion of American music.

19 1960. ERNEST (CHUBBY CHECKER) EVANS recorded "The Twist," setting off the biggest dance craze since the Charleston craze of the 1920s. The craze changed the patterns of American dance and changed, perhaps forever, the dominant patterns of men and women dancing together.

20 1960s. A new gospel music with a more worldly sound and a catchy, pop-flavored beat flowed out of urban Black churches and was given form and passion by JAMES CLEVELAND and SHIRLEY CAESAR, leading to ANDRAE CROUCH and the EDWIN HAWKINS SINGERS and contemporaries like KIRK FRANKLIN, the many WINANS and a new growth industry, White gospel singers.

21 1970s. STEVIE WONDER's creative use of synthesizers and over-dubbing and his detailed preparation of albums--he worked on Songs in the Key of Life for more than two years--gave new depth and meaning to popular music. Wonder's crusade and his music, especially his "Happy Birthday" to Dr. King, later played a role in the successful campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday.

22 1979. THE SUGAR HILL GANG produced the first rap hit, "Rapper's Delight," introducing the world of rap and hip-hop with implications that are still reverberating in the music world.

23 1984. MICHAEL JACKSON'S Thriller video premiered on TV, and revolutionized the making and marketing of pop music, leading to MTV and the new pop technology.

24 August 25, 1998. Mis-education of Lauryn Hill educated musical pundits, and made LAURYN HILL a prophet of new musical gumbo made up of hip-hop, reggae, jazz, soul and Latin music.

25 1990s. Popular crossover success of singers like WHITNEY HOUSTON and JANET JACKSON started new merchandising, marketing trends and led to numerous White imitators like Britney Spears.

SavonOsco said:

Does the carribean count for this thread? Reggae,Dancehall,Reggaeton,Soca and others are derived from the same African slaves and African rhythms... If this is just for music created in America, my apologies and carry on.... Great thread BTW....some people need to see this timeline and learn something

I would think so.

SavonOsco said:

Does the carribean count for this thread? Reggae,Dancehall,Reggaeton,Soca and others are derived from the same African slaves and African rhythms... If this is just for music created in America, my apologies and carry on.... Great thread BTW....some people need to see this timeline and learn something

Black music, not just African-American music.

MickyDolenz said:

Thanks Micky!

Cheers mjscarousal!

Let the music PLAY!!!

LittleBear said:

I love black music!! It's basically all I listen to. I love the vibe of r&b, jazz, soul and the vocal stylings. It just sucks being white because none of my friends listen to any of the stuff I listen to. They all listen to Katy Perry and shit, while I'm pulling out my obscure funk and r&b from the 70s and 80s. Sometimes I feel like an outkast because I don't know anyone who has my interests (aside from my bf).

I have thousands of black songs floating in my brain. Here are some choice cuts:

Carmen McRae & Cal Tjader - The Visit

Enchantment - If You're Ready (Here It Comes)

Chaka Khan - Message In The Middle of the Bottom

Anita Baker - Squeeze Me

smoothcriminal, thank you for those timelines - good reads.

First black recording artist. This tune was recorded in 1898:

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MidniteMagnet said:

LittleBear said:

I love black music!! It's basically all I listen to. I love the vibe of r&b, jazz, soul and the vocal stylings. It just sucks being white because none of my friends listen to any of the stuff I listen to. They all listen to Katy Perry and shit, while I'm pulling out my obscure funk and r&b from the 70s and 80s. Sometimes I feel like an outkast because I don't know anyone who has my interests (aside from my bf).

I have thousands of black songs floating in my brain. Here are some choice cuts:

Carmen McRae & Cal Tjader - The Visit

Enchantment - If You're Ready (Here It Comes)

Chaka Khan - Message In The Middle of the Bottom

Anita Baker - Squeeze Me

My friends allways tell me the same thing , you wont like anything unless they are black and before 1990