music hall

Examples of music hall in the following topics:

• Saloon Culture

  • The concert saloon was an American copy of the English music hall, and the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • The concert saloon, an American copy of the English music hall, was the forerunner of the variety and vaudeville theater.
  • Music hall entertainment continued after the war, but became less popular due to the emergence of Jazz, Swing and Big Band musical acts.
  • As modern day variety shows became more and more popular, Music hall entertainment was deemed unfashionable.
  • Many music halls were closed as a result.

• Cheap Amusements

  • Derived from elements of Victorian burlesque and music hall and minstrel shows, burlesque shows in America became popular in the 1860s and evolved to feature ribald comedy elements such as lewd jokes and female striptease.
  • By the early twentieth century, burlesque in America was presented as a populist blend of satire, performance art, music hall, and adult entertainment.
  • Performers, usually female, often created elaborate tableaux with lush, colorful costumes, mood-appropriate music, and dramatic lighting.

• The Roaring Twenties

  • The Roaring Twenties was a fruitful period for the arts, music and writing.
  • The Art Deco movement was popular among designers and architects, fashion for women went in bold new directions, and Jazz music became all the rage.
  • Art Deco, already globally popular, found favor among designers in America as the 1920s progressed, culminating with the opening of Radio City Music Hall in 1932.

• The White City, Chicago, and the World Columbian Exposition

  • The World's Columbian Exposition was the first world's fair with an area for amusements that was strictly separated from the exhibition halls.
  • This area, developed by a young music promoter, Sol Bloom, concentrated on the Midway Plaisance and introduced the term "midway" to American English to describe the area of a carnival or fair where sideshows are located.
  • Eadweard Muybridge gave a series of lectures on the Science of Animal Locomotion in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose on the Midway Plaisance.
  • The hall was the first commercial movie theater.

• Flappers

  • Flappers were the personification of a new spirit in fashion, dance and music in the 1920s.
  • They personified the musical and dance movements emerging from the dance clubs playing Jazz and new versions of old music, which became enormously popular in the 1920s and into the early 1930s.
  • Jazz and other new musical and dance forms exploded onto society in the 1920s.
  • In the flapper period, dance music took parts of various existing musical styles and created a new form.
  • A brief Black Bottom craze, originating from the Apollo Theater, swept dance halls from 1926 to 1927, replacing the Charleston in popularity.

• Television

  • Musical programs distinguished the decade.
  • Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, the first opera written for television, was performed on December 24, 1951 at the NBC studios in New York City, where it was telecast as the debut production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
  • The Broadway musical Peter Pan was televised in 1955 on NBC with Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard in their original roles as Peter Pan and Captain Hook.
  • Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Lawrence Welk as well as other stars had popular weekly musical variety shows.

• Art and Music

  • Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.
  • Rock music also drew strongly from other genres such as blues and folk, and was influenced by jazz, classical, and other musical sources.
  • Rock placed more emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and an ideology of authenticity than pop music.
  • While the hippie music scene was born in California, an edgier scene emerged in New York City that put more emphasis on avant-garde and art music.
  • During the 1960s, psychedelic visual arts were often a counterpart to psychedelic rock music.

• Rock and Roll

  • Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States.
  • Rock music also drew strongly from other genres such as blues and folk, and was influenced by jazz, classical and other musical sources.
  • Rock placed more emphasis on musicianship, live performance, and an ideology of authenticity than pop music.
  • It particularly took off in California's emerging music scene.
  • Rock music of the 1960s also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements.

• City Government and the "Bosses"

  • The society adopted many Native-American words and also their customs, going so far as to call its hall a wigwam.
  • Tammany Hall's electoral base lay predominantly with New York's burgeoning immigrant constituency, which often exchanged political support for Tammany Hall's patronage.
  • The patronage Tammany Hall provided to immigrants, many of whom lived in extreme poverty and received little government assistance, covered three key areas.
  • Lastly, Tammany Hall served as a social integrator for immigrants by familiarizing them with American society and its political institutions and by helping them become naturalized citizens.

• Minstrel Shows

  • Blackface minstrelsy was the first distinctly American theatrical form, influencing theater and popular music throughout the nineteenth century and well into the twentieth century.
  • In the 1830s and 1840s, it was at the core of a growing American music industry.
  • Early American popular music consisted of sentimental parlor songs and minstrel-show music, some of which remains in rotation to this day.
  • By the middle of the nineteenth century, touring companies had taken minstrel music not only to every part of the United States, but also to the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and even to Africa and Asia.
  • Additionally, Francis Johnson was the first black composer to publish music in 1818.