Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819

1811

Russian visitor Pavel Svinin visits an African American church in Philadelphia; this is one of the first written depictions of black church music in the United States.
The first use of the word hit referring to a success in show business comes from this year. The word is borrowed from the game of backgammon.

Early 1810s music trends
Three regions of shape note publishing take form, outside of New England: one was based in the South, especially Georgia and South Carolina, another was dominated by Germans between Philadelphia and the Shenandoah Valley, and the last stretched from Pennsylvania and the Shenandoah Valley westward to Cincinnati and St. Louis.

Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819 - 1811