Irving Berlin

A lot of even music, a lot of popular music, came out of the minstrelshe i don't know if you're into musiologyat but you know alltho. stephen foster was like those incredibly, and stephen foster's the reason irving berlin exists. A guy named artemus ward who was already famous for being a newspaper and writing funny things in newspapers. He recreated himself and decided to make fun of these lectures. So that's how that started.