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Music 3500
The US: 1900-1929 The Progressive Era
US Economy The World’s Biggest by 1900
• Railroads
• Oil & Coal
• Industrial Machines
• Inventions
• Engineering Colleges
• Electricity
• Mass Production
• Privatization
US Labor in early 1900s
• No government oversight or interference
• Difficult working conditions for many men, women and children (no unions)
• Significant alcohol and drug problem
Children cleaning newspaper press Child coal miners
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Progressive Era 1900-29
T. Roosevelt (1901-09)
• Had the US finish the Panama Canal • Anti-Trust Laws (broke the monopolies) • Abolished Child Labor, began Public Education • First federal oversight of Food and Drugs
Progressive Era 1900-29
• The Panama Canal (began by the French 1881-1894)
• 22,000 French workers died of accidents, malaria, etc.
• US took over the construction in 1904 and took 10 years to finish the 48 mile system of locks
Ingenious system of 6 hydraulic “locks”
Progressive Era 1900-29
• By 1906, 85% of US-sponsored workers on the canal had been hospitalized (21,000 had fever, malaria).
• Canal saves 8,000 miles NY to SF (30 days vs 60)
• Under US control until 1977 (gave to Panama in 1999)
Ingenious system of 6 hydraulic “locks”
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Progressive Era 1900-29
• 48 continental US states (1912) • First federal income tax (1913)
Taft (1909-13)
Wilson (1913-21)
• World War I (1917-18) - 4 million US soldiers; 116,000 died • 18th Amendment: Prohibition • 19th Amendment: Women vote
Progressive Era 1900-29The Roaring 20s
• Flappers
• Farms to Cities
• The Great Migration
• Mobile population (cars)
• Radio, recordings, movies
• Consumerism
Harding (1921-23)
Coolidge (1923-29)
US Roots Music 1900-29
• Spirituals
• Blues
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US Roots Music 1900-29
• Cowboy Songs
• Labor Songs
• Appalachian Music
Appalachian Music
12-state region of eastern/southern US
Indigenous Music
• Cajun Music
• Native-American Music
• Mexican-American Music
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Popular Music 1900-29
• Popular Songs• Broadway musicals• Ragtime • “Hot” Jazz
American “Classical” Music
• Band • Orchestral • Ballet Music• Experimental (avant-garde)• Multimedia• Sound Art
Music 3500 Dr. Daniel Jacobson
American Music Since 1900