Billie Holiday

Soul music prompted numerous later types, including funk, hip-jump, and contemporary R&B. Funk created when soul craftsmen like James Brown and Stevie Wonder started broadening the cadenced sections in their spirit music. Hip-bounce created when DJs in the late-70s started rapping over soul and funk notches, and contemporary R&B created from the music of craftsmen like Al Green and Aretha Franklin. Contemporary R&B craftsmen like Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey turned into a portion of the…

On October, 27, 2016, I watched the Folk-Rock band, Hurray for the Riff Raff perform music through an online broadcast at, www.npr.org/music. Hurray for the Riff Raff is an American folk-Rock and Americana band from New Orleans, Louisiana. The lead singer is Alynda Segarra. She grew up in the New York, Bronx where she developed an appreciation for doo-wop and Motown. She would attend hardcore punk shows at ABC No Rio regularly when she was younger. She left the Bronx when she was 17 years old…

Jaden Southworth 4 November 2016 We got the beat- Rock music through the ages The music industry is, and always has been, based purely off of supply, demand, and sales. It all began with the creation of sheet music; once music took a physical form, it was desired by rich aristocrats who paid for it in full. Then came the phonograph, a device invented by Thomas Edison that used phonographic disks to play recorded audio out loud. It was originally intended for the use of business documentation,…

for a common cause and this frequently leads to violence and different behaviors stemming from violence (Smith). In Billie Holiday’s song, Strange Fruit, mob mentality is depicted as she talks about strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. These strange fruits are you Blacks getting hung. She talks about their facial features such as: their bulging eyes and twisted mouth (Holiday). This song expresses the normality of this behavior towards blacks in society. Mob mentality is also…

Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis “Summertime” by George Gershwin in a song from the opera Porgy & Bess. Gershwin composed Porgy & Bess in 1934. The libretto was from DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy. Over time it become a widely known opera and one of the most frequently performed operas. Many great pieces of music were in Porgy & Bess but “Summertime” was one of the most well-known pieces to come from the opera. Because its melody is so strong and its cords so complex, it became one of the most…

Blues is a simple and timeless American music. It is a folk music that collided with new media and commercialization. Blues influenced the development of many other styles of music, such as jazz, rock and roll, and soul. The roots of blues stem from Africa but this music was born in the United States. In 1865, the American Civil War freed American slaves and by 1900 the blues appeared in the south. Many of the newly freed slaves came from different tribes, but the blues gave them a new language…

Americans known as the Harlem Renaissance was an important part of life for African American women. They were an integral part of the Harlem Renaissance - they were organisers, editors, writers, artists, decision-makers. Women such as singer Billie Holidays and artist Augusta Savage are just some of the few African American women whose work during the renaissance still hold great significance…

trumpet; it was being Billie Holiday’s man. He played with Teddy Hill's Orchestra after Dizzy Gillespie, however, his career would be brief. He did play with several other artist, however, he was not on their level. Although, Guy was only in his early twenties at the time. Eventually, he would be busted for drug possession and get lock up. Unfortunately, Guy would die broke and living in obscurity at the age of forty-one. This article supports the editorial on Billie Holiday. It is reliable and…

Upon the class ' return on Tuesday after a three day weekend, the highly anticipated showing of war poem reenactments commenced. The week before, each group was assigned a poem to recite and act out. Originally, we were prompted to present the day after it was assigned, but due to meeting with counselors about the rest of our (Clark) future, it was postponed to Tuesday. In short, we had four whole days to prepare. In theory, but not so much in practice. First up was the "Soldier," performed by…

Women such as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Blanche Calloway have made their mark on history as some of the best jazz performers of all time. For the first time, women were respected equally as men in the same field of work. They were some of the few colored women in that time to have…