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1930 |
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The first "fanzines", science fiction pulp magazines "Comet" and "Time Traveller", are founded, to allow sci-fi fans to communicate
Leon Termen invents the first rhythm machine, the "Rhythmicon"
Warner Brothers buys Brunswick
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1931 |
EMI (Electrical and Musical Industries), formed by the merge of Gramophone and the British subsidiary of Columbia, opens the largest recording studio in the world at Abbey Road in London, while the USA division of Columbia is sold
Edgar Varese premieres a piece for percussions, Ionisation
George Beauchamp invents the electric guitar (the Rickenbacker)
Gene Autry's Silver Hairde Daddy Of Mine popularizes the "honky-tonk" style of country music
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1932 |
Thomas Dorsey's Precious Lord invents gospel music in Chicago 
Milton Brown and Bob Wills invent "western swing"
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1933 |
Cuban bandleader Ignacio Pineiro releases Echale Salsita, the song that gives the name "salsa" to Cuba's dance music
Only six million records are sold in the USA
Jimmie Rodgers dies
Sales of "race records" drop to $6 million
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1934 |
John Lomax and his son Alan begin recording black music of the southern states, and discover the gospel genre of "rocking and reeling"
Laurens Hammond invents the Hammond organ
The first magazine devoted to jazz music, Down Beat, is published
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1935 |
The radio program "Hit Parade" is launched
Woody Guthrie writes the Dust Bowl Ballads and becomes the first major singer-songwriter
Max Gordon founds the jazz club "Village Vanguard" in New York
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1936 |
Roy Acuff becomes the first star of Nashville's country music
Bluesman Robert Johnson cuts his first record
Carl Stalling begins scoring the soundtracks for Warner Brothers' cartoons
the Gibson company produces its first electric guitar, the ES-150
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1937 |
Records by the "big bands" are the best sellers
The mambo is born in Cuba
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1938 |
a Carnegie Hall concert by the piano trio of Albert Hammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Pete Johnson launches the boogie-woogie craze
CBS buys USA's Columbia
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1939 |
Leo Mintz founds a record store in Cleveland, the "Record Rendezvous", specializing in black music
John Cage composes Imaginary Landascape N.1 for magnetic tape
The "Grand Ole Pry" moves to Nashville's "Ryman Auditorium" and is broadcasted by the national networks
The Panoram visual jukebox is invented (plays short films of records, the first music videos)
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