Bands like Tower of Power and Sly & The Family Stone kicked off the popularity of the movement in the early 70's, along with other bands like Parliament and Funkadelic whose popularity endured throughout the 70's. The Crooners Artists such as Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra sang with big Swing bands until they later became solo artists. Rika Maniates is one of several fine musicologists (see MUSICOLOGY); Conrad Laforte is a distinguished folk song scholar, as was Edith FOWKE (1913-96); Nicholas Goldschmidt (festivals), Gilles Lefebvre (Jeunesses musicales) and Arnold WALTER (education) have been organizers on the grand scale. In the 1930's a popular type of music arised this was called swing music. Tin Pan Alley, is the birthplace of the modern American music buisness. Mamie Smith's first record (also the first blues record) is released. Wham! In setting up teaching studios, in training their church choirs to appear in concerts and, together with other singers and with instrumentalists, to form "philharmonic societies" or "musical unions," in opening music stores and publishing firms, they drew on an abundance of natural talent and a thirst for "the finer things in life." The King of Pop - Michael Jackson was a singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. Thus, musical life in colonial Canada was diversified from the beginning, even though outside the church it lacked any formal organization. Individual performers of world repute include the singers Maureen FORRESTER, Lois MARSHALL, Louis QUILICO, Léopold SIMONEAU, Teresa STRATAS, Jon VICKERS, Paul FREY, Ben HEPPNER, and Edith Wiens (see SINGING); the pianists Glenn GOULD, Anton KUERTI, André Laplante and Ronald Turini, Louis LORTIE and Janina Fialkowska; the violinists Ida HAENDEL and Steven STARYK; the cellists Lorne Munroe and Zara Nelsova; the harpsichordist Kenneth GILBERT; and the JAZZ musicians Maynard FERGUSON (trumpet) and Oscar PETERSON (piano). From Library and Archives Canada. There were significant new developments, however. The use of magnetic tape for recording purposes revolutionizes studio recording - it allowed for easy recording, re-recording, and editing, while also being the highest quailty of analog recording available ever since. New technology In the 1940's new technology such as the … Expand your vocabulary with our fun word searches! Korn's single from their album Follow the Leader proves to be one of the most popular nu-metal songs released in its time. The Red Hot Chili Peppers release their breakthrough album and find almost immediate success, bringing to the alternative table a funky and hip hop flavored style unique from most other bands of the day. The original settlers transplanted their songs, dances and religious chants, and successive waves of immigrants reinforced old-world traditions. There were no public or university music libraries, but musical societies built collections of musical literature for their own members. John Philip Sousa publishes "Stars and Stripes", which becomes the official march of the United States. After the war the era of active music making waned under the impact of the new technologies of recorded and radio-transmitted sound (see MUSIC BROADCASTING). WWI produced a spate of patriotic songs, but it decimated orchestras, choirs and many other enterprises. Apr 25, 1940. Thomas Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice's song and dance "Jump Jim Crow" becomes an international hit. The King of Pop - Michael Jackson was a singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and actor. The period between the wars also produced the first musician of national stature, Sir Ernest MACMILLAN, the only Canadian musician to have been knighted. Historique de la communication a distance, La Península Ibérica desde los primeros humanos hasta la desaparición de la monarquía Visigoda, LA ATENCIÓN A LA INFANCIA A LO LARGO DE LA HISTORIA, ALGUNOS REPRESENTANTES E HITOS DE LA INVESTIGACIÓN CUALITATIVA. Leo Fender sells his company to CBS, which will own Fender until 1985. The making of pianos and pipe and reed organs began in the second decade of the 19th century in small workshops by German and US craftsmen and became a major industry by the end of the century, while violin making remained a cottage industry (see MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS). Its single "Sweet Child O' Mine" goes straight to number one upon its release. A Tin Pan Alley blues-style song, it quickly fairly popular and opened the door for other blues singers and musicians.