Music of New York (state)

• Bethel Woods Center
• Blue Cross Arena
• The Bowery Ballroom
• The Egg
• Hubbard Hall
• Java Barn
• Jones Beach Theater
• Keybank Center
• Palace Theater

Throughout the rest of New York State there are even more music halls in New York City including:

• Bargemusic
• Birdland
• The Bitter End
• Bowery Ballroom
• Brooklyn Academy of Music
• Brooklyn Bowl
• Brooklyn Steel
• Death By Audio
• Ford Amphitheater at Coney Island
• Madison Square Garden
• Manhattan Center
• Mercury Lounge
• Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts
• Miller Theatre
• Minton's Playhouse
• Music Hall of Williamsburg
• Onyx Club
• Paradise Theater
• Pianos
• PlayStation Theater
• Rockwood Music Hall
• Roseland Ballroom
• Savoy Ballroom
• The Sound Factory Bar
• St. George Theatre
• Terminal 5

This popular dance music came about during the early 1960s in New York City. The first salsa bands originally consisted of Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants who arrived in the early 1920s. This well known Latin fusion arose through the hybridization of rhythms deriving from areas such as Puerto Rico and Cuba.[6] Salsa began as an informal product of various preexisting popular Latin American styles of music such as son montuno, guaracha, cha chá, mambo, and to a certain extent bolero, and the Puerto Rican bomba and plena. Famous American percussionist and bandleader Tito Puente is credited for taking this newfound Afro-Cuban mix and developing it into a more defined genre. Other popular American Salsa singers from New York who popularized the genre were Mario Bauza, Mongo Santamaria and Perez Prado.[7] Growth persisted in the genre due to its close relationship with another well known New York genre referred to as Latin jazz.[8] This Afro-Cuban rhythmic form later branched out from New York to various Latin American countries to form regional variants.

In terms of music and culture, New York has always been diverse. After the Great Depression and Dustbowl, Folk became a pillar of the New York music scene and it quickly found a home base in Greenwich Village—a neighborhood that was the center of artistic innovation of all kinds.[9] Israel G Young is also known as Izzy, a famous dancer in Greenwich village, opened the store Folklore Center which became a central place for all folkies . A few artists from the area went mainstream including Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan.[9] Another center for urban folk was The Washington Square Park. On Sunday afternoon, all the folk musician including John Cohen, Mike Seeger, Barry Kornfeld, Eric Weissberg, Dave Van Ronk, Happy Traum, Jack Elliott, Tom Paley, Dick Rosmini, and Marshall Brickman used to flock to the place and sing for the rest of the day.[10] Some of the famous folk groups are:

• The New Lost City Ramblers
• Kingston Trio
• Peter Paul & Mary
• The Weavers
• The Tarriers
• The Journeymen
• The Rooftop Singers

Blues music came to New York in the early 1900s as a slower and rather sad form of music. The term blues comes from the phrase 'I'm feeling blue,' as in sad or down in one way or another. Blues Came to New York and very quickly gained a feeling of Jazz and became a form of music that is a tad uptempo in comparison to its slow rural relative. New York Blues was primarily formed by Jesse Stone as well as Mabel Louis Smith who both stem from the southern to middle America where country blues originated.[11] While most original blues songs were about God and faith, as time went on the music began to adapt to the joys and sorrows of rural life in the south until it was brought up north to New York.[11]

Jazz has provided some of the most influential histories in New York within communities. The African American community has benefited greatly from the music genre especially with the exploration of the Cotton Club. The Cotton Club opened its doors in 1923 by Owen Madden as a white audience who were to be entertained by African American Performers.[12] These performers may include Duke Ellington, Bill Robinson, Lena Horne, and Adelaide Hall where all of their careers received their humble beginnings.[13] All these Jazz performers were given radio play through Columbia Records thus providing each artist with exposure.[13] While Jazz was growing in popularity, prohibition had been in effect making alcohol illegal which led to the opening of Speakeasies around the City[14](shu). These played a massive part in the Jazz culture because they would host large crowds at a secret location where people could drink and enjoy a performance from an upcoming artist like Duke Ellington in the Early 20s.

Jazz was just as much a fashion movement as it was a musical movement. The Jazz era in America led to women wearing more revealing clothing, cutting their hair, and becoming more promiscuous.[14] These women, referred to as flappers, were just as much about adding purpose and changing the female mindset as they were about their fashion.[14] Women were no longer submissive and were taking their path to having fun and altered a plethora of rules that had been set in the past for women.[14]

New York contains a rich history in terms of the classical culture. This age of classical development began in the early 1830s. This classical age consisted of European classical music. During this rise of many troupes formed in order to support both the arts as well as American nationalism. Some of these entities such as the New York Philharmonic persisted into the recent history. During the early 1900s central hubs for formal performances began to arise such as the Metropolitan Opera House in 1882 and Carnegie Hall in 1891. American Composers such as George Frederick Bristow aided in the popularization of the Philharmonic.[15] Edward MacDowell was another iconic classical composer in the early 1900s who began melding genres of folk which deviated from European classical. The most influential New York composer of the early twentieth century was George Gershwin for his influence on the growing film industry. His stylistic nuances ranging from Jazz to symphony paved a path to the popularization of musical theater and Broadway.[16]

The South Bronx has been the center for struggle for a long time. After World War I the Jewish population of New York moved south to Manhattan or north to upstate New York. This is more commonly known as the "White Flight".[17] The South Bronx became quickly filled with gang activity and landlord abandonment. In 1970, Dj's changed the game with looping the breakbeat. DJ Kool Herc, a Jamaican immigrant is often regarded as the father of hip-hop music.[17] After the major break through, hip hop exceeded past New York State and reached the west coast. Towards the mid 1980s hip-hop started to focus more on the rappers instead of dancing. Artists such as Biggie Smalls started getting national recognition for their lyrical ability. These rappers would write songs about their toxic environment and created a whole subgenre of Hip-Hop called "Gangster Rap". Golden age hip hop is considered to be around the time period of 1980s and early 1990s. The 80's and 90's were dubbed the Golden Age due to new types of sub-genres of rap were emerging every day. For the state of New York Christopher Wallace more commonly known as Biggie Smalls, was considered the king of rap in New York. He was born on May 21, 1972 in Brooklyn. After the fall of the biggie smalls era, rappers Rakim and Method Man started to take over the New York scene and then the iconic group of Wu Tang Clan emerged. The group was then followed by DMX, Sean Combs (better known as Diddy), and 50 Cent. All who made New York an epicenter of the industry.