Dates/Events Flashcards
Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1991
Spectralism
1970s
GRM, Paris
1948
SEM, Cologne
1951
Invention of the phonoautograph/’phonograph’
1860’s/1880’s
Invention of the Theramin (Soviet)
1920 (Soviet Union)
Invention of the Ondes Martenot
1928 (Paris)
First public film
Paris, 1895
First Talkie
‘The Jazz Singer’ 1927
Interwar period
- Weimar in ruins - Cabarets
- French Neoclassicism
- Cultural explosion in America (Jazz and Popular Music)
Chinese musical censorship
- Education reforms in 1920s/30s push Western Art music
- Death of Mao 1976 and cultural revolution in 60s/70s supress Western and Traditional music; renewed interest in revolutionary anthems
Establishment of the Soviet Union
1922; Stravinsky exiled
Rise of small ethnic states
Post WW1 dissolution of Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires
Votes for Women (England)
1918
The Great Depression
- 1929-39
- Spread Globally with effect lasting up until WW2
- Stock market crash in America: millions of people invested their savings or borrowed money to buy stocks, pushing prices to unsustainable levels
The Russian Revolution/Rise of Communism
1917
The ‘Roaring 20s’
Social and economic mobility for the middle classes
Start of the nuclear age
- Scientific development in 1930s
- First tested in 1945
The Cold War
- 1947–1991
- Soviet vs the US in struggle for global influence
- Mutually assured destruction and Nuclear Weapons
The Golden Age of Film
early 1930s - mid 1950s
The Renaissance
- Start modernist agenda - PROGRESS
- Development of perspective painting and the printing press
- Ear gave way to the eye
- Development of strict musical form
