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19 hours ago · 20 Revolutionary Inventions from the 20th Century. The 20th century was a period of remarkable innovation and technological advancement. From transforming how we communicate to revolutionizing medicine and transportation, the inventions of this era have profoundly shaped the world we live in today. These groundbreaking developments have not ...
2 days ago · Blues, secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. The simple but expressive forms of the blues became by the 1960s one of the most important influences on the development of popular music. Learn more about blues, including notable musicians.
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- What is the blues?The blues is a form of secular folk music created by African Americans in the early 20th century, originally in the South. Although instrumental ac...
- Where did the blues get its name?In the 19th century the English phrase blue devils referred to the upsetting hallucinations brought on by severe alcohol withdrawal. This was later...
- How did the blues begin as a musical genre?The origins of the blues are poorly documented, but it is believed that after the American Civil War (1861–65), formerly enslaved African Americans...
- Why is the blues considered the “Devil’s music”?In the early 20th century the blues (among several other popular genres of music) was considered seductive and destructive by parents and clergy wh...
- How does blues music sound?The blues has a distinct melancholic and somber tone, which is achieved through vocal techniques such as melisma, rhythmic techniques such as synco...
4 days ago · Umberto Boccioni. Gino Severini. Ivan Albertovich Puni. (Show more) On the Web: Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism - Futurism (May 25, 2024) Futurism, early 20th-century artistic movement centred in Italy that emphasized the dynamism, speed, energy, and power of the machine and the vitality, change, and restlessness of modern life.
19 hours ago · Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues were all aspects of this movement.
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4 days ago · For much of the 20th century, the dominant historiography, as exemplified by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1868–1941) at Stanford, emphasized the rise of American education as a powerful force for literacy, democracy, and equal opportunity, and a firm basis for higher education and advanced research institutions. Cubberley argued that the ...
5 days ago · The history of the Southern United States spans back thousands of years to the first evidence of human occupation. The Paleo-Indians were the first peoples to inhabit the Americas and what would become the Southern United States.
5 days ago · At the start of the twenty-first century it sometimes appears that the only event of the previous century that is being actively remembered is the Holocaust.
