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- Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...ddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a teen, gradually heading toward [[New ...
7: ... acts. Already a star, she performed in a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet...
11: ...ime she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contempo...
13: ...ker was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre]] for her underground activity.
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never real... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...helped her develop a stage presence. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta...
7: ...Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]].
9: ...itle song accompanied by members of [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a ...
11: ...her old blues groove, but "Take Me For A Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popula...
13: ...on]]'s uncle) Richard Morgan. They were in an accident and Smith was severely injured. A doctor soon a... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...[[comedian]] and star of [[I Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one ...
4: ...a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ...on sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ..."royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king".
9: ...ivorced in [[1945]], but remarried the same year, deciding to patch things up. - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...]], was an actress, singer and major star of [[vaudeville]].
4: ... girls debuted in nearby [[Buffalo, New York]] in December of 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career ...
6: ...t of 1884. In 1886 her husband of eight years, Frederick W. Keller, passed away unexpectedly.
8: ... developed her career into that of a leading [[vaudeville]] performer with an act known at the time as...
12: ...America's most beloved performers. In 1914, she made her second [[silent film]] appearance, this time ... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: ...illian Russell''' ('''Helen Louise Leonard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [[June 6]],[[1922]]) was an ...
7: ...eater]]. Tony Pastor, known as the father of [[vaudeville]], was responsible for some of the biggest s...
9: ...Tony Pastor's she was also the subject of a great deal fanfare in the [[newsmedia]]. For forty years, ...
11: ...Jacques Offenbach's]] ''[[The Princess of Trebizonde]]'', ''[[The Brigands]]'', and ''[[The Grand Duch...
13: ... the [[Actors' Equity]] strike of 1919, Russell made a major donation of money to sponsor the formatio... - Accordion (10069 bytes)
9: [[Image:KlavierAccordeon.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|a piano accordion]]
10: ...e, and as air is drawn through the hole in the holder, the reed vibrates, producing sound.
12: Modern free-reed instruments have several aspects in c...
22: ...ons, which is more similar to a clarinet than a modern free-reed instrument.
25: ... with Jew's Harps. The reeds were mounted on a wooden soundboard, similar to concertinas. - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...0th century]], the instrument's name was often rendered as "ukelele", a spelling stilll used in Great ...
3:
5: ...eturned to the ukulele to its ancestral home of Madeira Island off the coast of North Africa. Flora Fo...
11: ...The tension and tone are a little brighter and louder. This tuning is still used today by some known ...
13: ...e-entrant tuning is the characteristic that most identified the original ukulele. - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...onomic boom|boom]] and accelerated [[consumer]] [[demand]] and aspirations, coupled with significant c...
3: ...the second half of this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also c...
5: ...s were cultivated in [[jazz]] and [[dancing]], in defiance of the horrors of the First World War, whic...
8: ... [[1920]]s were setting the stage for the [[Great Depression]] that would dominate the [[1930]]s.
10: ===Demobilization=== - Richmond, Virginia (20197 bytes)
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13: ...gn="center" width="140px" style="padding: 3px; border-right: 1px solid gray"| City Flag
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4: ...licks'' — and most commonly ''movies''. Academics and the English-speaking international commun...
6: ...ception of motion — a psychological effect identified as [[beta movement]].
8: ...r of communication. Any film can become a worldwide attraction, especially with the addition of [[dub...
14: ...the underlying principle became the basis for the development of [[animation]].
16: ...ored on a single [[reel]], and led quickly to the development of a [[movie projector|motion picture pr... - Musical genre (24851 bytes)
1: ...nd a single geographical category will often include a number of different genre.
3: ...or example, a musician whose work has covered a wide range of genres, wrote in ''Arcana: Musicians on ...
5: ...mple of this is [[video game music]], which while defined by its media, can also represent its own sty...
11: ...f this page attempts to do that for a number of widely agreed areas.
13: ...t and simple, referring to further articles as needed. - Music history of the United States (35788 bytes)
4: ...people to populate [[North America]]. These included a number of [[tribe]]s, like the [[Choctaw]], [[...
6: ...tian]] [[choir]]s, [[musical notation]], [[broadside]]s, as well as large numbers of [[West Africa]]n ...
12: ...] began performing spoken lyrics over a beat provided by an [[emcee]]; this became known as [[hip hop ...
17: ...nct, though some remain relatively vibrant in a modern form, such as [[music of Hawaii|Hawaiian music]...
19: ...an]], [[Ireland|Irish]], [[Mexico|Mexican]], [[Sweden|Swedish]], [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] and [[Armenia]]... - Theater in the United States (12545 bytes)
2: ...tates are professional [[theatre]] companies outside of [[New York City]] that produce their own seaso...
11: ...r, Lewis Hallam's son, [[Lewis Hallam, Jr.]], founded the American Company which opened a theater in N...
13: ...t of [[Yale College]] in his "Essay on the Stage" declared that "to indulge a taste for playgoing mean...
19: ...a single play was shown in New York for an unprecedented three weeks.
26: ...as sparked by this rivalry, and brought about the deaths of 22 people. Then, at the end of the [[Unite... - Opera (25153 bytes)
7: ... the visual spectacle on the stage, which is considered an important part of the performance. Finally,...
9: ...arely reaching vocal maturity until the third decade, and sometimes not until middle age. Male singer...
11: Traditional opera consists of two modes of singing: [[recitative]], the dialogue and plo...
13: ...s such film scores can in some sense even be considered both the heirs and the competitors of [[grand ...
20: ...ical [[Greek tragedy|Greek drama]], part of the wider revival of antiquity characteristic of the [[Ren...
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