Rhythm and blues

Spirit of the times Since the beginning of the time and the lost generation, the world has been entertained by instrumental sounds. This is a way to show happiness and to take stress away. In the 1920s, the African American community had a major development in jazz music. It was major progress. This type of music started to spread from one city to another city till it takes the whole country. The people were falling in love with the jazz music and it was approved as a good new musical…

microphone as a prop and dancing in a vulgar way young Americans viewed him in awe while critics disregarded the performance. At first people did not know what or who he was. America could not distinguish what type of music he was singing between blues or country. Soon thousands of adolescents around America would come together to view and be mesmerized by his performances. This became a worry to the American society, many were afraid that Presley would destroy the traditional…

“Historians use the word boom to describe a lot of things about the 50s: the booming, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called baby boom.”This quote about the 1950s shows the baby boom ,,just one of the many important occurrences in the time period,. The “baby boom” began in 1946 to 1964 and resulted in the birth of four million babies each year , in the 1950s ,in the United States which was caused because many of the soldiers coming home from World War II though the future would be…

The word "teenagers" was invented describing people ages 13 to 19. Teenagers in the 50 's had a significant role in Canadian history. Teenagers during the 50 's became more difficult. Before the 50 's teens would listen to their parents, however during the 50 's teenagers were beginning to get rebellious, many started to call teens "rebels" or "renegades". They changed society in many ways. The teenagers in the 50 's differed from many other teenagers, they gained more freedom and independence…

Ethnography Review Jackson, Travis. 2012. Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene. Berkeley: University of California Press. Book Overview: Blowin’ the Blues Away: Performance and Meaning on the New York Jazz Scene is an ethnography by Travis Jackson, detailing the study of Jazz music in America. Jackson starts off by questioning of what exactly Jazz is, and how inclusive the word Jazz really is. He hopes to provide an examination of not just the music but…

B.B. is most always regarded as the king of blues, and why shouldn’t he be. He started from the bottom and worked his way up in the world. From living in a broken shack on a plantation. To living it up on his bus playing over 100 concerts a year. How many other people do you know who have started from such a poor place and grew up to be a king of something? Not many right, well that’s what B.B. did. Now you might be telling yourself there are tons of success stories of people being at the very…

When the blues was first produced, it was grown out of a tradition of sorrow songs from the slavery period; songs that spoke about the African American soul during conflicting times. Several writers have identified the blues as a multifaceted concept that can be defined through the lens of the traditional, black conservative politics; the white liberal ideology; and through the secularization of the traditional religious ideology. The blues created an era when African American could air their…

traits of the blues are the familiar “blue notes,” a three-line AAB verse form, and a characteristic use of the familiar blues chord progression. Historically, the popularity of blues coincides with the rise of the commercial recording industry, the introduction of “race” records aimed at black record-buyers after 1920, and the emigration of black Americans from the rural South to the urban North. Many of the earliest black American recording stars were blues singers. The first blues songs to be…

were being made to make blues the most popular type in the area. Both of the genres gave birth to modern rock and roll, but contributed in different ways. But how did these two distinct forms of music, with different lyrical styles, instrumentation, and styles converge and meld into what we know as rock and roll today? Country music was recorded by travelling promoters to sell to independent record labels. It had heroes like Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family. The blues, with artists like…

instruments (guitar, drums, bass, and vocals). It shows in their music, which is mostly rooted in the blues. Blues was very popular in England at the time, so the band used that style in their music. The band is credited with being one of the first heavy metal bands because of their use of electric blues. I think they were more…