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This is a timeline of music in the United States from 1950 to 1969. ==1950== *The Fender Esquire guitar is released; it is the first "mass-produced, solid body electric guitar".〔Miller, pg. 39〕 *The recent success of "Tennessee Waltz", a "folk" or country song, a number of cover versions are released, including Jimmy Mitchell's, arranged for jazz band by Erskine Hawkins, and Patti Page, whose version is "pathbreaking" as Page sings "four-piece harmony with herself, creating a delicate latticework of sound... simultaneously direct and ethereal, plain yet highly ornamented, with an aura of childlike magic".〔Miller, pg. 46〕 *Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson's Atlantic Records has its first major hit with Ruth Brown's "Teardrops From My Eyes".〔Miller, pgs. 48–49〕 *Pete Seeger and The Weavers release a cover of Lead Belly's "Goodnight Irene", inspiring a brief fad for pop-folk music based around a "bright, homey, simple, folksy melody sort of tune"〔Miller, pgs. 187–188: ''This claim is in quotes in Miller, but is not specifically cited.''〕 that tamed the rough sounds of American folk music for mainstream tastes.〔Lankford, pg. xii〕〔Mitchell, pg. 70〕 *North Korea invades South Korea, instigating the Korean War and delaying the U.S. Army's intention to implement a program to train military bands.〔(U.S. Army Bands )〕 *Seeburg introduces the first 45 rpm jukebox. *''Sing Out!'', a magazine for folk music aficionados, is first published.〔Lankford, pg. 54〕 *Elektra, a record label, opens in New York City; it will eventually become one of the major labels of the folk music revival.〔Lankford, pg. 67〕 *Mahalia Jackson becomes the first to perform gospel music at Carnegie Hall.〔Darden, pg. 215〕 *The 45rpm single is introduced.〔Sanjek, David and Will Straw, "The Music Industry", pgs. 256–267, in the ''Garland Encyclopedia of World Music''〕 *Irving Berlin's ''Call Me Madam'' uses a song, "They Like Ike", that inspires Dwight Eisenhower's presidential campaign slogan, "I Like Ike".〔 *A Chicago-based group, including Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz, make series of groundbreaking records that offer the "most advanced harmonic and contrapuntal sounds employed in jazz to that date".〔Chase, pg. 519〕 *Douglas Moore's Pulitzer Prize-winning tragic opera ''Giants in the Earth'' is the "effective beginning of realism in American opera".〔Chase, pg. 555〕 *Joe Bostic organizes the first of a series of Negro Gospel and Religious Music Festivals, which will become an overwhelming success and the "first big all-gospel concert in history".〔 *Muddy Waters 'Louisiana Blues" is a popular song that brings a new, more intense and exciting form of Chicago blues, characterized by the use of the electric guitar.〔Bird, pg. 235〕 *Radio Free Europe begins broadcasting in Czechoslovakia. *Sam Phillips founds the Memphis Recording Service, the first permanent studio in Memphis. He will record many important R&B, blues and country performers there, including Jackie Brenston, Howlin' Wolf and B. B. King. *Word Records is founded. It will soon become the biggest company in the Christian music and gospel sectors of the industry. 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 (1950–69)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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