1-12 Flashcards
William S. Paley
president of columbia broadcasting system (CBS)
Women’s suffrage
brings 18th amendment
Woodrow Wilson
president during WWI - instituted “progressive” era
when the government took over the radio industry
During WW1
milky white aura from lime between lights
Great White Way
inventor(s) of the graphophone
Charles Summer Tainter
inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
first performing rights society in the United States
ASCAP
first family of country music
The Carter Family
first “prestige” label
Columbia
first international recording star
vesti la gabbi
Enrico Caruso
inventor(s) of the gramophone
Emile Berliner
E. P. Christy’s Minstrels
first full show - popularized stephen foster’s songs
dancers who introduced the “fox trot” - vernon and irene
The Castles