Native Americans were the earliest inhabitants of the land that is today known as the United States and played its first music.

The earliest reports of this style of a cappella music involved African Americans.

Breton artist Alan Stivell was one of the earliest musicians to use the word Celtic and Keltia in his marketing materials, starting in the early 1960's as part of the worldwide folk music revival of that era with the term quickly catching on with other artists worldwide.

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Baroque.

* Stations of the Elevated ( 1980 ), the earliest documentary about subway graffiti in New York City, with music by Charles Mingus

The earliest significant usage of the term ( as applied to music ) was by Joy Division's producer, Tony Wilson on 15 September 1979 in an interview for the BBC TV program's Something Else: Wilson described Joy Division as " Gothic " compared to the pop mainstream, right before a live performance of the band.

The composition of his chamber opera Dido and Aeneas, which forms a very important landmark in the history of English dramatic music, has been attributed to this period, and its earliest production may well have predated the documented one of 1689.

The earliest karaoke-based music video game, called Karaoke Studio, was released for the Nintendo Famicom in 1985, but its limited computing ability made for a short catalog of songs and therefore reduced replay value.

Although lutes were in widespread use in Europe at least since the 13th century, and documents mention numerous early performers and composers, the earliest surviving music for the instrument dates from the late 15th century.

The earliest surviving lute music is Italian, from a late 15th century manuscript.

1508 ); together with the so-called Capirola Lutebook, these represent the earliest stage of written lute music in Italy.

This public music school, perhaps the earliest in recorded history, was not restricted to a priestly class — which is how the shepherd boy David appears on the scene as a minstrel to King Saul.

Among Agricola's other theoretical works is Musica instrumentalis deudsch ( 1529 ), a study of musical instruments, and one of the most important works in early organology ; and one of the earliest books on the Rudiments of music.

Key recordings included Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, the first album to come out of San Francisco during this era, which sold well enough to bring the city's music scene to the attention of the record industry: from it they took two of the earliest psychedelic hit singles: " White Rabbit " ( 1967 ) and " Somebody to Love " ( 1967 ).

Perhaps best known among these is one of the first computerized video games, Spacewar !, but among the list are the first text editor, word processor, interactive debugger, the first credible computer chess program, and some of the earliest computerized music.

These are the earliest European dances to be well-documented, as we have a reasonable knowledge of the choreographies, steps and music used.

It was also the earliest known record to utilize the microprocessor-based Roland MC-8 Microcomposer music sequencer, which was programmed by Matsutake.

In 1895, black entertainer Ernest Hogan published two of the earliest sheet music rags, one of which (" All Coons Look Alike to Me ") eventually sold a million copies.

The earliest trumpets were signaling instruments used for military or religious purposes, rather than music in the modern sense ; and the modern bugle continues this signaling tradition.

* 1774: earliest known printed publication of the lyrics together with the music in volume two of " Recueil de Romances " by M. D. L.

From his earliest works, Brahms wrote music that prominently featured the viola.

One of the earliest person who recognized the possibility of Vocoder / Voder on the electronic music may be Werner Meyer-Eppler, a German physicist / experimental acoustician / phoneticist.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

Parallels to the earliest Babylonian ( Sumerian ) star catalogues suggest that the ancient Chinese system did not arise independently from that of the Ancient Near East.

But in the earliest times the " state " did not always provide an independent policing force.

The earliest writings to contain the concept of enthalpy did not appear until 1875,

The earliest references to ‘ broomstick ’ marriages in England did not refer to a practice of jumping over a stick, but rather to any kind of sham or dubious ceremony.

The earliest use of the phrase is a quote from the Westminster Magazine of 1774: " He had no inclination for a Broomstick-marriage ", the person in question simply stating that he did not want to go through a ceremony that had no legal validity, it having been suggested to him that he would pretend to be marrying by having a French sexton read the marriage service to him and his young bride.

The coining of the term " joystick " may actually be credited to Loraine, as his is the earliest known usage of the term, although he most certainly did not invent the device.

Additionally, the earliest manuscript of the Gospel, dated circa AD 200, ascribes the work to Luke ; as did Irenaeus, writing circa AD 180 ; and the Muratorian fragment from AD 170.

Not all of these cultural elements characteristic of the Neolithic appeared everywhere in the same order: the earliest farming societies in the Near East did not use pottery.

Though his earliest publications date from his mid-twenties, Valéry did not become a full-time writer until 1920, when the man for whom he worked as private secretary, a former chief executive of the Havas news agency, Edouard Lebey, died of Parkinson's disease.

The earliest dance manual printed in England did not appear until 1651.

Assuming all references are to the same person, as some ( but by no means all ) of the Church fathers did, the earliest reference to him is the canonical Acts of the Apostles, this is his only appearance in the New Testament.

" The earliest record of doubts concerning the authorship of the letter were recorded by Origen ( c. 185 – 254 ), though Origen mentioned no explanation for the doubts, nor did he give any indication concerning the extent or location.

In this way he discovered that stone tools did not co-occur with bronze or iron in the earliest deposits while subsequently bronze did not co-occur with iron-so that three periods could be defined by their available materials, stone, bronze and iron.

Although this project was one of the earliest attempts to port Linux to a handheld computer, it did not come to fruition for Psion.

The Ordinance of 1639, Maryland's earliest comprehensive law, expressed a general commitment to the rights of man, but did not specifically detail protections for religious minorities of any kind.

Rosenberg became one of the earliest members of the German Workers Party ( later the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazi Party ), joining in January 1919 ; Adolf Hitler did not join until October 1919.

Thus ' many psychoanalysts among Freud's earliest adherents did not resist the temptation to psychoanalyze poets and painters ( sometimes to Freud's chagrin '.

The earliest of these formats, Laserdisc, was not widely adopted, but the subsequent DVD format eventually did achieve mass acceptance and replaced VHS as the preferred method of distribution after 2000.

Image of the Santa Cruz dolmen, burial place of chieftains of the Eastern Asturian area since Megalithic times. Although the earliest evidence of Christian worship in Asturias date from the 5th century, evangelisation did not make any substantial progress until the middle of the 6th century, when hermits like Santo Turibius of Liébana and monks of the Saint Fructuoso order gradually settled in the lands of the Cantabrian mountains and began preaching the Christian doctrine to the locals.

The earliest indications of the localized genre date back to 1987 with the group FF. C, though native language albums did not appear until the mid-1990s.

Although generally referred to as " remotely-controlled " or " telerobotic ", the earliest orbital spacecraft – such as Sputnik 1 and Explorer 1 – did not receive control signals from Earth.

The earliest uses of the term appear to have been commercial — for example, the Delmarva Heat, Light, and Refrigerating Corp. of Chincoteague, Virginia, was in existence by 1913 — but general use of the term did not occur until the 1920s.