Music in America

Year Published: 1946

Creator: March of Time

Complete Record: Kids performing music in school. Kids hanging out in record shop. Tin Pan Alley... Publishers and song writing houses for popular music. songwriter attempting to convince publisher to sign his song. Perry Cuomo singing a song in a radio studio to live audience. Hit Parade. George Gershwin playing piano with a band. Benny Goodman Orchestra playing swing music in a ballroom in New York, couples dancing. Shows how jazz was derived from Negro folk music. Dixieland Jazz/Jass Band playing in a recording studio. Jazz imitators. Julliard school of music, Benny Goodman lecturing to students. Art Tatum playing piano with a band. Jazz Band at Eddie Condon’s in Greenwich Village, people sitting around drinking cocktails, smoking, drummer with cigarette, stand-up bass with cigarette,trombone. Carnegie Hall with billboards of performances. Military band performing “serious” music. Marian Anderson singing in a radio studio. Chamber music with string quartet. Boston Symphony Orchestra rehearsal conducted by Serge Koussevitzky. Metropolitan Opera Company performance. Rich patrons going into theater boxes.