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This timeline of music in the United States covers the period from 1850 to 1879. It encompasses the California Gold Rush, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and touches on topics related to the intersections of music and law, commerce and industry, religion, race, ethnicity, politics, gender, education, historiography and academics. Subjects include folk, popular, theatrical and classical music, as well as Anglo-American, African American, Native American, Irish American, Arab American, Catholic, Swedish American, Shaker and Chinese American music. ==1850== *The Adelphi Theater of Nashville, Tennessee opens, one of the largest stages in the country at the time.〔Abel, pg. 249〕 *The California Gold Rush brings the first major influx of European-derived music to the indigenous peoples of the Sierra Nevada and northern California counties. *The first American ''Eisteddfod'', a Welsh music and art festival tradition, is held in the United States.〔Hansen, pg. 223〕 *Isaac B. Woodbury publishes ''The Dulcimer; or, The New York Collection of Sacred Music'', one of the most successful collections of Christian songs of the era.〔Chase, pg. 144〕 *One of the biggest musical stars of the day, Swedish singer Jenny Lind, demands the unheard-of sum of $187,000 from promoter P.T. Barnum to go on a national concert tour. Barnum raises the money, and promotes her so successfully that an estimated thirty thousand people arrived to watch her ship land in New York Harbor,〔Crawford, pg. 186〕 and the tour is a great financial success. Lind first performs at Castle Gardens in New York.〔Burk, Meierhoff and Phillips, pg. 207〕 *Louis Moreau Gottschalk composes "The Last Hope", his most popular song. It will later become a staple of film scores, often used to accompany death scenes.〔Clarke, pg. 57〕 *The Luca Family performs at an abolitionist meeting in New York, then goes on to become the most prominent African American singing family of the kind inspired by the white Hutchinson Family.〔Southern, pg. 106〕 *The first theater opens in San Francisco, California.〔Crawford, pg. 193〕 *The Slippery Noodle opens in Indianapolis, Indiana. As of 2009, it is the oldest bar in Indiana and a prominent regional blues venue.〔Bird, pg. 320〕 *Stephen Foster's "Gwine to Run All Night", or "De Camptown Races", becomes a minstrel show hit, helping to launch Foster's career; he would go on to become the most famous songwriter of the 19th century,〔Crawford, pg. 210〕 and the first "full-time popular songwriter".〔 He also composed Angelina Baker in this year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Timeline of music in the United States (1850–79)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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