1959 in music information

notable events in music that took place in the year 1959. 1959 in British music 1959 in Norwegian music 1959 in country music 1959 in jazz January 5 –...

February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were all killed in a plane crash...

notable events in country music that took place in the year 1959. The first Grammy Award for outstanding performances in the country music genre is presented...

is a summary of 1959 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. January – Ealing Jazz Club opens in London. 21 April...

releases of the year 1959 in Norwegian music. 16 – The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet holds its first performance in Folketeatret in Oslo. 29 – The 7th...

The Eurovision Song Contest 1959, staged in Cannes, is won for the Netherlands by "'n Beetje" sung by Teddy Scholten (music by Dick Schallies, lyrics by...

The Sanremo Music Festival 1959 (Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1959), officially the 9th Italian Song Festival (9º Festival della canzone italiana), was...

Contest 1959 was the fourth edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest, held on Wednesday 11 March 1959 at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in Cannes...

The year 1959 in film involved some significant events, with Ben-Hur winning a record 11 Academy Awards. The top ten 1959 released films by box office...

in the peak position. 1959 in music List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from 1958 to 1969 Whitburn 2005, p. xii. "Hot 100: January 5, 1959"...

100 in 1959 (see 1959 in music). Billboard ranked it as the No. 1 song for 1959, it was very popular with teenagers in the late 1950s/early 1960s in an...

positions. The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart was first introduced in the June 1, 1959 issue of Billboard, under the name "Bubbling Under the Hot 100"....

In Japan, music includes a wide array of distinct genres, both traditional and modern. The word for "music" in Japanese is 音楽 (ongaku), combining the kanji...

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range...

Experimental Music to Musical Experiment". Perspectives of New Music 35, no. 1 (Winter): 187-204. Metzger, Heinz-Klaus. 1959. "Abortive Concepts in the Theory...

Brazilian rock refers to rock music produced in Brazil and usually sung in Portuguese. In the 1960s, it was known as iê-iê-iê, the Portuguese transcription...

first recorded by Marty Robbins in September 1959. Western music's influence would continue to grow within the country music sphere, western musicians like...

Music education is a field of practice in which educators are trained for careers as elementary or secondary music teachers, school or music conservatory...

types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted orally, music with unknown...