In the book All Shook Up: How Rock ‘n’ Roll Changed America, by Glenn Altschuler, touches on the development of rock ‘n’ roll between 1945 and 1955 cautiously observing that it is a “social construction not a musical conception (Page 27).” This definition of rock ‘n’ roll gives him space to focus on arguable topics much as exploration, and, in some cases, combining of differing styles, cultures, and social values. In the book the first three chapters focus on those argued areas by looking at generation differences, race, and sexuality. In his discussion of race, he obscures the traditional view that white artists did damage to African American artists when he says that in some a way it helped lift them by giving them more radio time and publicity.…
It became not only a record corporation that created African American soul music, it was the birth of…
Segregation was a very big deal back in the early 1900s. African Americans were treated different back then just because of the color of their skin. Many stores and restaurants had certain rules for them ; because they were a different race. We recently watched a movie on this topic in our American History class. That movie was “42”.…
This amazing thing was a recording studio by the name of motown records. Berry Gordy was the son of a Plantation owner and his female slave. They relocated to detroit because his father found a better job working for the automotive businesses. Growing up he saw the way they made cars and thought “why can 't you do that with music?” With help from family he was able to come up with motown records with a 800$ loan.…
Hattie McDaniel As known as a great African-American Actress, Singer- Songwriter, Hattie McDaniel was a great woman who paved a way for several other African American entertainers in her time. During the rapid growth of the film industry, Hattie McDaniel was a woman of visionary that took the industry under her wings and evolved into a idealists to the media industry. Hattie McDaniel was born in Wichita, Kansas on June 10, 1893; she was her parents' 13th child. Her father, Henry, was a Civil War veteran who suffered greatly from war injuries and had a difficult time with manual labor her mother, Susan Holbert, did domestic work.…
Good old Soulsville U.S.A, also known as Stax Records is where it all began. Stax Records was the creation of a brother and sister by the names of Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton. “Stax was a political and social phenomenon. As its ownership passed from being white, to half-white/half-black, to one hundred percent black, it became important as an innovative black business enterprise” (Bowman, 4). Stax is not only known for its incredibly, talented recording artists, but also for the bonds and relationships within the record company.…
As I started to read Racism Without Racists I became increasingly more uncomfortable. Not because I did not like the book, but because I was afraid that I would recognize Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s words in myself. That I would have to see the ways in which my white privilege has caused me to spin my words to make myself appear less racist, or somehow pretend to be more marginalized than the minorities around me. I have to admit that when Bonilla-Silva said “I found that young, working-class women are more likely than any other segment of the white community to be racially progressive” (Bonilla-Silva 192), part of me breathed a sigh of relief. I am a young women from a working class family, I guess that means I am progressive right?…
Similar to many eras and generations before the 1950s struggled for the control of pop culture. For the first time, this particular new genre of music was able to bring African American music into white homes. Altschuler’s detailed accounts of musicians, such as Elvis Presley, gave credit to African Americans with the creation of this new sound of music. Although many adults believed rock was a detriment to social values it also had the ability to unite…
Black people in St. Louis have contributed to art in a way that is like no other. Their constant longing to create new ideas and ways of expressing themselves is America’s “saving grace”. While black artists, specifically in the music business, created the unique American “cultural” experience as we know it today, America has seem to have forgotten that black people are her creators. Singer, songwriter and actress Stephanie Mills said it best , “They want to hear R&B, Jazz and Gospel, but they don’t want to hear it from us”. According to Samantha Ainsley of Columbia University in New York, “The crime, then, is not the use of black musical gifts but the bigotry that often leads to their commoditization.…
One day having brown eyes was better, and the next having blue was better. It showed the students how it feels like to be discriminated against about something they could not change about themselves. Mrs. Elliot’s video was then shown in…
Gordy also booked his artists on The Ed Sullivan Show and American Bandstand, because a lot of Americans were watching those shows, even white people. By doing that he got his artists more known and more accepted by the white Americans. By making the artists look and act white, white people saw African Americans as less of a threat. Motown also played a huge part in the civil rights…
White Vs Black The world we live in today is not only diverse through culture, religion, and ethnic background. What most people notice is on the outside to what they can only see. Since 1896, segregation has been one of the world’s biggest issues between culture identities. Two culture identities such as white and African American people have been impacted heavily upon each other in many ways, due to the history and communication that caused enormous amount of unnecessary tension between the two groups.…
Gordy expanded his Motown empire with subsidiary labels such as Gordy Records, and Tamla-Motown Records. Some of these subsidiary record labels were short lived such as Check Mate Record which started in 1961 through 1962 and Miracle Records lasting a year or less. B. The music industry saw tremendous growth in the R&B, Jazz and Gospel genres.…
Although I was free, I never felt less human. My thoughts then went to the students of color I had the honor of teaching. As their teacher, I taught them that by following the rules and going to college you can excel in society. I tried to instill the resiliency in them, that no matter the obstacle, life has value. They have value.…
During a period in time where African Americans were physically and systematically oppressed, the Blues gave people hope, a way of grieving or expressing pain. The blues speak out to me, you could literally feel the artist’s pain in blues music. As a result, I choose this genre of music, because it truly intrigues me. Furthermore, “blues music gain popularity through the publication of Memphis Blues in 1912 and St Louis Blues 1914 by W.C. Handy (1873-1958)”…