An Introduction to America’s Music

TIMELINE: 1861–1918

1861 Reverend Lewis C. Lockwood publishes “Go Down

Moses” in an abolitionist newspaper

1865 Founding of the Theodore Thomas Orchestra

1867 Publication of Slave Songs of the United States

1868, 1870 Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments

extend citizenship and voting rights to African

American men

1871 Founding of the Fisk Jubilee Singers

1876 Ira Sankey, Gospel Hymns

1877 Thomas A. Edison invents the phonograph

1879 Bureau of Indian Ethnology created at the

Smithsonian Institution

1881 Founding of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

1882 First performances of “Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West”

1882 Theodore Baker, Über die Musik der

nordamerikanischen Wilden (On the Music of the

North American Indians)

1883–98 Francis James Child, The English and Scottish

Popular Ballads

1884 M. Witmark & Sons, Tin Pan Alley publisher,

founded in New York City

1890 Massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

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