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Music of Seattle
Seattle is the largest city in the U.S. state of Washington and has long played a major role in WA state's musical culture as well as an influential international role on popular music. The original birthplace of guitarist Jimi Hendrix, the Seattle music scene has popularized particular genres of alternative rock and grunge, especially as the origin and home of bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, Foo Fighters, and Nirvana.
Seattle is also home to the globally influential public radio station KEXP-FM. The city and surrounding metropolitan area remains home to several influential artists, bands, labels, and venues, and is home to several symphony orchestras, world-class choral, ballet and opera companies, as well as amateur orchestras and big-band era ensembles.
Music played a deeply spiritual role in the lives of the Pacific Northwest's First Peoples for eons prior to the beginning of recorded time, with much of this age-old music being passed down through oral tradition.
Prior to the establishment of the City of Seattle in 1851, the Pacific Northwest and greater Seattle region was home of the Coast Salish and neighboring tribes (i.e. Duwamish people). These tribes sustained a rich musical tradition of st̕il̕t̕ilib ("song" in Lushootseed), often accompanied by drums, clappers or rattles and sometimes flutes or whistles. Indigenous people's used st̕il̕t̕ilib to teach language and traditional aspects of native life, to recount important history or stories, as well as for practical uses like keeping rhythm while paddling/traversing waterways.
Seattle's physical and cultural landscape changed drastically with the arrival of the first European settlers in the 1800s, as the region established industrial growth and a significant urbanized culture by the early 20th century, shadowed only by that of San Francisco (which was then the major colonial center of the West Coast).
By 1909, amidst the boosterism engendered by the city's first world's fair (i.e. the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition), the Seattle City Council adopted "Seattle, the Peerless City" as the City of Seattle's official song (words by Arthur O. Dillon; music by Glenn W. Ashley). Seattle became an important stop for vaudeville tours, put on by large chains like Pantages and Considine; the city also produced a major attraction in the exotic dancer Gypsy Rose Lee, and the Whangdoodle Entertainers were one of Seattle's first jazz and ragtime bands, active from 1907-1925.
By the 1920s, Seattle had also come to support a politically radical American folk scene, inspired in part by several lengthy stays in the region by folk singer Woody Guthrie; Seattle's folk performers included Ivar Haglund, who later founded a chain of successful seafood restaurants. The Seattle jazz scene included Jelly Roll Morton for several years in the early part of the century, as well as Vic Meyers, a local performer and nightclub owner who became Lieutenant Governor in 1932. E. Russell "Noodles" Smith, founder of the Dumas Club and the Entertainers Club, was another important name in the Seattle Jazz scene of the day.[page needed]
Early musical establishments of the "classical" vein included the art school founded by Nellie Cornish, which saw residencies from both John Cage and Martha Graham, and the Seattle Symphony, which gave its first concert in 1903. From 1941 to 1943, Thomas Beecham was on a world-wide tour and served as the conductor of the Seattle Symphony as well as the New York Metropolitan Opera (and apparently an occasional gig with the Vancouver Symphony). Thomas Beecham either described Seattle as a "cultural dustbin" or warned that it could become one. The passage of time would prove different.
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Music of Seattle
Seattle is the largest city in the U.S. state of Washington and has long played a major role in WA state's musical culture as well as an influential international role on popular music. The original birthplace of guitarist Jimi Hendrix, the Seattle music scene has popularized particular genres of alternative rock and grunge, especially as the origin and home of bands like Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Mudhoney, Foo Fighters, and Nirvana.
Seattle is also home to the globally influential public radio station KEXP-FM. The city and surrounding metropolitan area remains home to several influential artists, bands, labels, and venues, and is home to several symphony orchestras, world-class choral, ballet and opera companies, as well as amateur orchestras and big-band era ensembles.
Music played a deeply spiritual role in the lives of the Pacific Northwest's First Peoples for eons prior to the beginning of recorded time, with much of this age-old music being passed down through oral tradition.
Prior to the establishment of the City of Seattle in 1851, the Pacific Northwest and greater Seattle region was home of the Coast Salish and neighboring tribes (i.e. Duwamish people). These tribes sustained a rich musical tradition of st̕il̕t̕ilib ("song" in Lushootseed), often accompanied by drums, clappers or rattles and sometimes flutes or whistles. Indigenous people's used st̕il̕t̕ilib to teach language and traditional aspects of native life, to recount important history or stories, as well as for practical uses like keeping rhythm while paddling/traversing waterways.
Seattle's physical and cultural landscape changed drastically with the arrival of the first European settlers in the 1800s, as the region established industrial growth and a significant urbanized culture by the early 20th century, shadowed only by that of San Francisco (which was then the major colonial center of the West Coast).
By 1909, amidst the boosterism engendered by the city's first world's fair (i.e. the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition), the Seattle City Council adopted "Seattle, the Peerless City" as the City of Seattle's official song (words by Arthur O. Dillon; music by Glenn W. Ashley). Seattle became an important stop for vaudeville tours, put on by large chains like Pantages and Considine; the city also produced a major attraction in the exotic dancer Gypsy Rose Lee, and the Whangdoodle Entertainers were one of Seattle's first jazz and ragtime bands, active from 1907-1925.
By the 1920s, Seattle had also come to support a politically radical American folk scene, inspired in part by several lengthy stays in the region by folk singer Woody Guthrie; Seattle's folk performers included Ivar Haglund, who later founded a chain of successful seafood restaurants. The Seattle jazz scene included Jelly Roll Morton for several years in the early part of the century, as well as Vic Meyers, a local performer and nightclub owner who became Lieutenant Governor in 1932. E. Russell "Noodles" Smith, founder of the Dumas Club and the Entertainers Club, was another important name in the Seattle Jazz scene of the day.[page needed]
Early musical establishments of the "classical" vein included the art school founded by Nellie Cornish, which saw residencies from both John Cage and Martha Graham, and the Seattle Symphony, which gave its first concert in 1903. From 1941 to 1943, Thomas Beecham was on a world-wide tour and served as the conductor of the Seattle Symphony as well as the New York Metropolitan Opera (and apparently an occasional gig with the Vancouver Symphony). Thomas Beecham either described Seattle as a "cultural dustbin" or warned that it could become one. The passage of time would prove different.