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Ragtime music was one of the most popular forms of sheet music, and the king of ragtime was an African American named Scott Joplin

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John Lomax publishes "Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads", Aleksander Skryabin composes "Prometheus" featuring an instrument projecting light instead of playing sound, Sergei Diaghilev produces in Paris the ballet "Scheherazade", the most successful of the "Ballets Russes"

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The blues , Mamie Smith's Crazy Blues is the first blues by a black singer to become a nation-wide hit. Eric Satie composes music not to be listened to ("musique d'ameublement", furniture music)

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Jazz and swing were popular. People danced to the big band tunes of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, and Tommy Dorsey. Louis Armstrong expanded his repertoire. In addition to playing trumpet, he sang and performed on radio.

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Bing Crosby's White Christmas becomes the best-selling song of all time (and will remain so for 50 years. Los Angeles bluesman T-Bone Walker incorporates jazz chords into the blues guitar with I Got A Break Baby

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Jac Holzman founds Elektra in New York to promote new folk and jazz musicians. Les Baxter's Music Out of the Moon incorporates exotic themes in instrumental music. The first major rhythm'n'blues festival is held in Los Angeles (the "Blues & Rhythm Jubilee"). Dutch electronics giant Philips enters the recording business

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Twist is the biggest dance-craze in the year of the dance-crazes. Larry Parnes, Britain's most famous impresario, arranges a show for the Silver Beetles in Liverpool, The Shirelles' Will You Love Me Tomorrow coins a form of romantic multi-part vocal harmonies. The British producer Joe Meek uses the recording studio like an instrument for the space opera I Hear a New World, Where also the rock revolutionates.

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ZZ Top and Allman Brothers launch "southern-rock", Black Sabbath debut, playing heavy, dark rock music (the prototype for black metal and doom metal) . Todd Rundgren plays all instruments by himself on Runt, the first "do it yourself" production, German group Kluster (Cluster) plays keyboards-based instrumental music that is inspired by the industrial society. At the peak of British jazz-rock, the Soft Machine cut Third

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The Cramps' Songs The Lord Taught Us invents "voodoobilly", The Bad Brain's Pay To Cum fuses punk-rock and reggae in Washington. Ian MacKaye forms the Minor Threat in Washington. A psychedelic revival spreads from the UK to the US, The Minutemen play dissonant, funky, jazzy, punk-rock in Los Angeles. The Sugar Hill Gang cuts the first "hip hop" record in New York, and whne the soul was another mode in music.