Ma Rainey

Janis Joplin, who was born on January 19, 1943, grew up in a typical tiny town in Texas during the 1940s and often felt like an outcast. Her craving for the heartfelt blues was a response to her isolation. She relocated to San Francisco, a city known as a sanctuary for uniqueness, in the mid-1960s. At this venue, she honed her mesmerizing vocals and stage presence to the point where she became a member of the rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company. But she still had her insecurities, and…

African Americans migrated from the rural south to more urban areas in the North in the period between 1910 to 1930 to escape the Jim Crow laws, oppression, as well as frequent lynchings. The pull factors for urban areas in the North were new job opportunities, as well as political and social freedoms. After slavery was abolished by the 13th amendment, segregation emerged as a social problem. Jim Crow laws created legal discrimination towards black people and mandated racial segregation. The…

1979, Wilson had wrote, Jitney, which was considered his first play. He had received a fellowship from Minneapolis Playwright Center in 1980, and in the following year, he married his second wife, Judy Oliver. In Wilson’s third century cycle play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which had been premiered at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in 1982, was to gain him widespread recognition. These plays were the first to open a series known as the Pittsburgh Cycle. It had consisted of ten plays, each set…

In today’s world women are a huge part of the music industry. They perform all over the world and have a very large following. Women like Beyoncé, Adele and Lady Gaga are just a few ladies that have made it big in the music industry. They have set many records along the way but it wasn’t always like that for women in the music industry. The blues that we know now used to be known as “race music.” (Rockin’ out textbook – page 30) This type of music was sung by mostly whites but in 1920, African…

as the economy blasted and parties thundered in spite of banishment in the US. The music business as we probably am aware it was simply starting and all things appeared to be conceivable. Specialists, for example, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ma Rainey, Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor, Paul Whiteman, and Bessie Smith commanded the business. 30s The Great Melancholy hit late in the 1920s and stayed all through the 1930s, vigorously impacting the music of the time. Some music like soul and…

variations in the notes allowed musicians to popularize the blues. In time, blues gained rapid popularity as a form of “mass entertainment,” selling millions of records every year by the 1920’s. One of the foremost pioneers in the blues was Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, an African-American vocalist known for her “clear intonation” and “declarative manner[isms] collaborated with influential jazz trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. Most notably, ragtime and blues share a common historical and folkloric context,…

Kerrigan 2 Louis Armstrong also known as Satchmo and or Pops was a great American Jazz artist who came from very humble beginnings to become one of the greatest music legends of all times. Known not only for his great talents on the trumpet but, for the cornet and his scat-style singing. A style of vocal jazz creativeness in which the vocalist alternates nonsense syllables for lyrics. Scat singing is often used to emulate the type of musical line that a jazz instrumentalist would play.…

African American Music came about during the time of slavery in America. Africans from many different ethnicities and nationalities built their religious and secular rituals, festivals, and social gatherings on the foundation of song, dances, and rhythms they invented to cope with the New World realities. During the slavery era, enslaved African American became the musicians of choice for white and black celebrations because they were recognized as the best “musicians” around. Enslaved Africans…

Okeh recorded Mamie Smith’s Crazy Blues thereby spreading the blues to audiences never heard of before. As a result, most of the previous artists that had been performing in circuses and tent shows became famous out of the blues. Clara Smith, Ma Rainey, Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith among other artists soon became worldwide hits who were recognized across different regions of the world. The reception that the music achieved was in part due to its “expression of the longings and philosophical…

Taylor Shores Ms. Davis College Prep 1 31 March 2017 The King 1961, a youthful Mary, stuck at home with her siblings and loving father while mom takes a trip up to sunny California to visit her sister for the next two weeks. Two long weeks. Despite Mary’s countless attempt to tag along, it was the middle of the school year and no was the final answer. However, a silver lining rose to help pass the time, Blue Hawaii had just come out. Imagine, beaches filled with warm sand and surfers testing…