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Fotoplayer Style
The American Photoplayer Company introduces the "Fotoplayer Style", an instrument that can play orchestral music as well as sound effects -
Popularization
The incidental music to Richard Walton Tully's play Bird of Paradise popularizes the ukulele and the steel guitar -
Musical Gets Invented
Jerome Kern invents the "musical" by integrating music, drama and ballet and setting it into the present -
Quartets
Henry Cowell composes quartets using combinations of rhythms and overtones that are impossible to play by humans -
France is Introduced to Jazz
James Europe's Hellfighters export jazz to France -
Mamie Smith Becomes a Hit
Mamie Smith's Crazy Blues is the first blues by a black singer to become a nation-wide hit -
First record of "old-time music"
Texan fiddler Eck Robertson cuts the first record of "old-time music" -
Music Corporation of America (MCA)
The Music Corporation of America (MCA) is founded in Chicago as a talent agency -
"Crooning"
Bing Crosby cuts his first record and invents the "crooning" style of singing thanks to a new kind of microphone -
Boogie Woogie
Clarence "Pinetop" Smith cuts Pinetop's Boogie Woogie -
"Rhythmicon"
Leon Termen invents the first rhythm machine, the "Rhythmicon" -
"Western Swing"
Milton Brown and Bob Wills invent "western swing" -
The Hammond Organ
Laurens Hammond invents the Hammond organ -
Protest Songs
Pete Seeger forms the Almanac Singers to sing protest songs with communist overtones -
Savoy Founded
Savoy is founded in Newark (NJ) by Herman Lubinsky to promote black music -
V-Discs
The USA army introduces V-Discs that play six minutes of music per side -
Rocket 88
The first rock and roll record, Ike Turner's Rocket 88, is released -
Boom of Doo-Wop
Boom of doo-wop
