Sourced music history reference: history, people and documented cultural context.
Nina Simone - Symphony Hall, Boston, Mass. - 1969: Date: 1969. Photograph by: Robert Houston, American, 1935 - 2021. Subject of: Nina Simone, American, 1933 - 2003.
Pair of cufflinks owned by Cab Calloway: Date: 20th century. Manufactured by: Unidentified. Owned by: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
Although definitions of music vary wildly throughout the world, every known culture partakes in it, and it is thus considered a cultural universal.
Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is a highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical point of view.
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the Midlands in the early 1970s.
Tin Pan Alley was a collection of music publishers and songwriters in New York City that dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
My cousin Caruso: Catalogue date: 1909-05-13. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Humorous songs.
Keep a little feeling in your heart for me: Catalogue date: 1909-01-22. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
Hello people: Catalogue date: 1909-05-11. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Musical theater; Popular music.
The Yama-Yama man: Catalogue date: 1909-05-11. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Musical theater.
Senora: Catalogue date: 1912-09-11. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
I'm a member of the midnight crew: Catalogue date: 1909-04-23. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Humorous songs; Popular music.
I'm looking for a sweetheart: Catalogue date: 1909-03-02. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Musical theater; Popular music.
I'm looking for a sweetheart: Catalogue date: 1909-03-02. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Musical theater; Popular music.
If I had a thousand lives to live: Catalogue date: 1909-05-12. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
Nobody knows, nobody cares: Catalogue date: 1909-04-27. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
Prayer from Freischutz: Catalogue date: 1909-04-16. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Classical music; Opera.
Venetian love song: Catalogue date: 1908-12-04. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Classical music.
The wise old Indian: Catalogue date: 1909-04-06. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Ethnic characterizations; Popular music.
Isn't love a grand old thing?: Catalogue date: 1909-03-02. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
Bombasto march: Catalogue date: 1909-03-29. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
Guard mount: Catalogue date: 1909-03-30. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
Largo: Catalogue date: 1909-03-05. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Opera.
Russian fantasie: Catalogue date: 1909-04-15. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Classical.
College life march: Catalogue date: 1909-04-05. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Whistling; Popular music.
The friendly rivals: Catalogue date: 1909-04-15. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Classical music.
Victor Minstrels, no. 16: Catalogue date: 1909-01-27. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Humorous songs; Comedies.
A good old dollar bill: Catalogue date: 1909-01-11. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Humorous songs.
Tittle, tattle, tattle tale: Catalogue date: 1909-03-25. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
The longest way round is the shortest way home: Catalogue date: 1909-03-10. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
The whitewash man: Catalogue date: 1909-03-30. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
The Yankee prince : March: Catalogue date: 1909-02-09. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Musical theater.
Prima donna : Selection: Catalogue date: 1909-04-01. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Opera.
Summer reminds me of you: Catalogue date: 1909-04-13. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
Just one sweet girl: Catalogue date: 1909-03-09. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
Lena: Catalogue date: 1909-04-10. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Yodeling; Popular music.
I remember you: Catalogue date: 1909-04-09. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
The boogie boo: Catalogue date: 1909-04-06. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.
The whitewash man: Catalogue date: 1909-03-25. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Ethnic characterizations; Popular music.
Whistle, and I'll wait for you: Catalogue date: 1909-04-09. Original format: Sound recording. Genre: Popular music.