Blues-rock

(Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos), desperation stems from obsession, a thirst for a particularly unrefined sound of liberation — that is rock and roll. Drugs are plenty, girls and guys are ready, and the mystical, human connection between…

Music: Vocal or instrumental sounds composed in such a way as to provide the beauty of form, harmony and expression of emotion. Music is engraved into us on a daily basis. It is in every movie we watch, every television show that we tune into, as well as the accompaniment to our drives to our destinations. Music is a way of life, which has withstood the test of time. In today’s world we have experienced some of the greatest compositions that have or will ever be written. Everything resulting…

Numerous changes have happened in the American society over the last 100 years, creating extensive transformations in the cultural outlook. One of the most significant changes has been the demographic diversification in this country’s population. One of the most recent censuses shows that the current use of the word minority will soon be outdated. While these alterations have had great results for a decent amount of ethnic and racial groups in the United States, it is Black culture…

When thinking of Memphis, most people think Rock n Roll and the Blues, but our music history is much deeper than that. Memphis has a far rooted music history and we should take a look from the beginning. Music has been a huge part of this city since it started. Memphis’ has long been shaped by its music history so let’s take a stroll through Memphis and its music history. The city of Memphis was founded on May 22, 1819. It didn’t take long before the first Memphis brass band was created.…

and the Creation of Weariness in “The Weary Blues” This paper will focus to use the relative knowledge of literary stylistics, deviation and foregrounding to analyze Langston Hughes’s poem “The Weary Blues”, and use strong evidence from the poem to support the argument of Hughes’s use of literary stylistics to create and highlight the sentimental elements of weary in this poem. The weary sentimental elements are significant to the theme of this poem. Blues is the music in America which testimony…

good mood and also entices them to dance. The following essay will first describe some of the important musical characteristics that are prevalent in the song. Next, a description will be included as to how the song contributed to the genre of folk rock. Before giving my personal critique of the music, this essay will explain the important…

Before taking this class, I had made my own racist assumption that blues music was mostly sung by African Americans and, therefore, was mainly targeted to a black audience but, I had never heard blues music called race records. The name itself is racist because it is simply called race records. Although blues may have been marketed to and mostly sung by a certain race, that did not stop it from becoming the most influential genres of music…

It is the celebration of the unique traditional culture and the heritage of New Orleans and Louisiana both country. The festival has 12 different stages of different lovable music like- jazz, rock, folk, gospel, Latin, funk, R&B, African, blues, Caribbean, Cajun, and many more music types. This jazz Fest is usually held at the ‘Fair Grounds Race Course’, New Orleans. In this Heritage celebration, all the music artists from New Orleans and Louisiana join. Some other…

Due to this revelation, blues music flowed out of bluesmen and blues-women as a way to vent the disappointments and disillusionment of African Americans. Blues music related to both spirituals and work songs in its musical form and rapidly became popular during the nineteen-teens and twenties. The music also chronicled many blues singers’ personal issues with racial problems/discrimination associated with being black in the prejudiced…

The Buddy Guy concert at the Sun Center on Monday Aug. 11th was a present of a blues legend wrapped in a box of a great young blues artist with a surprise bow. Quinn Sullivan is an accomplished blues/soul artist. What is remarkable is that he is just 16. He appeared on Ellen DeGeneres in 2001 at 5 and his career has been steady progressing with the likes of Buddy Guy using him to warm-up his audience. Quinn took the stage and about half way through his first number, the crowd was just…