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1 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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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
General Background US in 1900-29
The US had become the world’s biggest
economy by 1900.
…but there were no government
regulations for child labor, public
schooling, oversight of food & drug
safety, etc. until this “Progressive Era”.
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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”
President Theodore Roosevelt
(who took office upon the assassination
of President McKinley in 1901), wanted
the US to dominate the western
hemisphere through trade and politics.
He saw that the US completed the
Panama Canal after the French failed.
The US controlled shipping through this
ingenious 48-mile canal for 85 years
(from its completion in 1914 through
joint US/Panama control in 1977,
The canal is a massive time saver
to complete transfer to Panama in 1999.
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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
US Presidents during the
“Progressive Era”, and what they
accomplished:
- Taft (the only US President to also
serve as a Supreme Court Justice)
- Wilson
- Harding
- Coolidge
Types of Roots Music in 1900-29
- Sprituals
- Blues
(We will cover these in class starting
on January 23)
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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
More Types of Roots Music 1900-29
- Cowboy Songs
- Labor Songs
- Appalachian Music
The Appalachian region of the US
Indigenous Music
(music that was already here before the
Europeans settled the US)
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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
Popular Music 1900-29
“Art Music” 1900-29
