Music, film and drama in America

Music The history of American music can be traced back to the traditional religious music of early Native Americans. With the arrival of a large number of immigrants from European countries, American music has been added with the color of Christian chorus and music score. Since then, every wave of immigration has brought music with different regions, cultures and characteristics. A large number of African-Americans also brought traditional music with African characteristics. /kloc-American pop music, which began to appear in the late 9th century, largely originated from these African-American blues and gospel music which began to develop in the 1920s. African-American music has become the basis of American pop music, and it has blended European and local musical elements. The United States also has a lot of folk music and music from immigrants such as Ukraine, Ireland, Scotland, Poland, Mexico and Jews. Many American towns have also developed independent local music.

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In the earliest colonial period, the main theme of American literature was to praise the benefits brought by the New World to the colonists and the European motherland. The controversy of religious belief is also one of the themes. With the outbreak of the war of independence and the independence of the United States, Benjamin? Franklin and Thomas? Paine and others in literature and writers such as Allen? Poe and others gradually emerged. The conflict of slavery and the ensuing civil war also had a far-reaching impact on American literature. By the end of 19, due to the progress of industrialization and the end of the land development period, American literature was divorced from the original frontier literature. Twain became the first major writer who was not born on the East Coast, setting a precedent for Native American literature.

In the 20th century, the social transformation brought by industrialization made American literature more diverse and complex. Hemingway reflected people's aversion to the First World War. The biography of the tycoon published by Fitzgerald 1925 represents the dream of Americans before the great economic panic in the 1920s. Black literature, southern literature and modern literature also rose at the same time. After World War II, the new generation, new ethnic, regional and social characteristics are very different from the previous generation, and a large number of immigrant literature and emerging feminist literature have also become part of American literature.

Film, television and drama

The birth and development of film originated in the United States, and it is also one of the earliest countries in the world where TV technology developed and popularized. British-American photographer Ed Ward? Muybridge filmed the first film "Running Horse" in human history. Since then, the American film industry has developed rapidly. Hollywood in California has become an important town for the development of human films. The innovation and development of film technology mostly originated from Hollywood, and Hollywood films have become one of the main representatives of American culture. In the1920s, the United States produced an average of 800 regular films every year. Chaplin's comedies "Gone with the Wind" and "Titanic" adapted from novels have set unprecedented box office, and films such as Superman and Batman have spread to almost every continent and country and become household names in the United States. The export of these films has also made great economic profits for the United States. In addition to movies, the cartoon technology pioneered by Disney also originated in the United States.