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emma_in_dreamI was wondering what people were listening to in 1919, and the answer that Wikipedia gives is... lots of stuff I recognise.
Music my white bread family sings... Lots of stuff I remember my grandfather and mother singing. 'How we gonna keep them down on the farm, now that they've seen Paree', 'I'm forever blowing bubbles' and 'Don't dilly dally on the way'.
I have a terrible ear for music, but basically music hall stuff.
And then, surprisingly, music that is clearly related to popular music in 2019. I listened to 'I ain't gonna give nobody none of this jelly roll' and was like, hey, I recognise this. There's a link from this jazzy rag to jazz, to blues, to rock.
So I wondered if I could find the same thing prior to the war. I had a listen to Wiki's biggest hits of 1909 and the trend to syncopation had not begun.
Music my white bread family sings... Lots of stuff I remember my grandfather and mother singing. 'How we gonna keep them down on the farm, now that they've seen Paree', 'I'm forever blowing bubbles' and 'Don't dilly dally on the way'.
I have a terrible ear for music, but basically music hall stuff.
And then, surprisingly, music that is clearly related to popular music in 2019. I listened to 'I ain't gonna give nobody none of this jelly roll' and was like, hey, I recognise this. There's a link from this jazzy rag to jazz, to blues, to rock.
So I wondered if I could find the same thing prior to the war. I had a listen to Wiki's biggest hits of 1909 and the trend to syncopation had not begun.
