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1900 in music

• Music of Argentina
  • The bandoneón begins to become popular in Argentina; it will soon become one of the principal instruments in tango music
• Music of Colombia
  • The accordion begins to become popular throughout the country
• Music of Cuba
  • Romantic ballads called boleros are developed
  • A second wave of Haitian immigrants bring tumba francesa to the Oriente
• Music of Indonesia
  • The developing form of kroncong is popular among the poor, urban people
• Music of Russia
  • Vassily Andreyev and Mitrofan Pyatnitsky found music groups as part of a cultural revival in traditional Russian music
• Music of Spain
  • Travelling troupes offering pop flamenco (Opera Flamenco) begin to achieve widespread popularity
• Music of Switzerland
  • The Swiss Musicians Association is founded
• Music of Trinidad and Tobago
  • First recorded use of the word "calypso"
• Music of the United States
  • Joseph Kekuku invents steel guitar by sliding a piece of steel across the strings of a slacked guitar; at about the same time, Hawaiian traditional music with English lyrics (hapa haole) was invented
  • The modern incarnation of Native American powwow music and dance arise

1901 in music

• Music of Puerto Rico
  • Commonly regarded as the beginning of plena music in Puerto Rico

1902 in music

• Music of the Dominican Republic
  • Juan F. García, Juan Espínola and Julio Alberto Hernandez, among others, begin trying to move merengue into mainstream ballrooms in the Dominican Republic; their attempt fails but is the beginning of merengue's eventual success outside of rural areas
• Music of India
  • Fred Gaisberg makes the first recordings of Indian music
• Music of the United States
  • The most popular fusion of schottische and ragtime, "Any Rags" by Thomas S. Allen, becomes a major hit

1903 in music

• Music of Sri Lanka
  • A theatrical song called "Nurthi" is the first recording out of Sri Lanka

1904 in music

• Music of Spain
  • A recording by the choral group Aires d'a Terra from Pontevedra is the first commercial recording of Galician music
  • Perfecto Feijoo records the hurdy gurdy for the first time

1905 in music

• Music of Lithuania
  • The nationalist society Daina is registered as a church choir with the Russian government
• Music of Tanzania
  • The Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club is founded; this is sometimes considered the birth of modern taarab

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