Kind of Blue

Blues music is a famous African-American music, and it has an excellent in its performance; the performance of the blues has a high level of versatility, and that it may be one of the reasons that blues became popular. This unique style has what led the blues to become famous (The History of African­-American Music 2). Blues also has a distinctive feature that can be easier to recognize in other types of music…

Ryosuke Koizumi Ethnomusic 50A Harrison Charley Oct 16, 2015 Ragtime and Blues Jazz is widely considered as the greatest form of African American music in the twentieth century, and it is distinguished by the originality of its improvisation, the virtuosity and erudition of its performers and composers and its professionalism and artistry. (Burnim 163) Although Jazz is one distinctive music genre, some of the other genre influenced the emergence of the jazz, such as African American traditional…

Without African music we would not have some of the most popular genres of music that we have today. African music influence helped create genres like jazz, gospel, blues, soul and even hip hop and reggae. The traditional song and dance created by native Africans spread all over the world as its fusion with other type of song helped create the music we all know and love today. The spread of the African music can be traced to the slave trade that shipped Africans all over the world. The one thing…

be denied that Elvis Presley’s principal importance as a musical influence and an innovator – like that of Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Fats Domino – during the early years of rock ‘n’ roll. Presley was influenced by such a variety of R&B, C&W, Blues, Gospel, Pop, European, Broadway, Hollywood and even Mexican musicians, from the age of 12. The legend of Elvis Presley continues to exist until now. After he passed away, we are still talking about…

although abused, mistreated and violated society of people to America it was that nonetheless a society of people. With a society comes culture, and the African culture is one with rich musical characteristics. The African people had a large variety of kinds of music and songs, those songs ranged from topics such as ritual songs, work songs, songs of mourning, songs of victory etc. African music is well known for being a vocal tradition, however it does feature a range of string instruments,…

music styles, Ragtime and Blues are two contributors which largely influenced the emergence of Jazz. Jazz is a form of music combines the characteristics and sound of Ragtime and Blues. The syncopation and improvisation of Ragtime and the polyrhythm and swing feeling of Blues all became the main features of the jazz. I am going to talk about…

Sh-boom by the chords is a doo- wop of rhythm and blues. This song is sing by 4 people who are one lead singer and tree vocal accompaniment. This song is about a love story, whole music is in a brisk mood. The lead singer was sing the whole story and accompany were flow the lead singer, deeper voice and with the rhythm of doo and sh- boom. However the main musical instrument is guitar. Shake rattle and roll by Jor Tumer is type of rock and roll. Whole music is solo by a male singer who is Jor…

Jazz is sometimes referred to as "America's classical music". It has become a diverse genre with its roots in native American and African music; in particular, the blues, spirituals and rag time. Jazz first became a defined music form in the early 1920 springing from the US cities of New Orleans and later Chicago. Early Jazz was characterized by traditional rhythms and melodies being taken and improvised upon, giving a combination of swing and syncopation. Early Jazz performers of note included…

The masterful, classic composition “Potato Head Blues” by legendary musician Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven band is widely regarded today as one of Armstrong’s finest recordings. This song is a quick-paced jazz melody with the trumpet along with the piano providing what I believe is to be a 4 beat per measure rhythm. “Potato Head Blues” also sounds different from that of Joplin Rags since I counted 2 beats per measure. The song also does not seem to have much variation with a constant…

In the making of country music three young men, all of them twelve years of age, named Hank, Merle, and Johnny. Everyone said they were born crying loud, strong, and in a blues kind of tune. One day the boys met under a great big cedar tree. Ask Hank started moaning the blues Merle and Johnny chimed in singing in their smooth as molasses voices. As they got further into the song they saw the tree starting to twist and form into three weird shapes. The boys, scared to the point that their knees…