Rhythm and blues

How well do you know our history? Many things have happened how could you possible remember all of it,maybe names of people places and events sound familiar but do you actually know how it affected our word today? Elvis Presley he was a world phenomenon in the mid-1950´s, he was important , according to Rolling Stone Magazine ¨it was Elvis who made rock ´n´ roll the international language of pop.¨ Elvis made a large impact on american music. Rolling Stone encyclopedia of Rock and Roll describes…

Elvis Aaron Presley, the famous Rock "n" Roll singer, died yesterday August 16, 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee he was 42 years old. He was born on January 8, 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi to parents Gladys and Vernon Presley. He had a twin brother Jesse Garon who died shortly after birth. He was raised in a poor, religious household where he grew very close to his mother. He started singing in the church choir at a young age. He received his first guitar at the age of twelve and taught…

This paper will inform you all about Bill Robinson and his carrer. Bill Robinson as known as “Bojangles” was a huge iconic African- American tap dancer and actor during the Harlem Renisance. Bojangles was best known for his Broadway performances and film roles. At the young age of five Robinson began his carrer, performing at the local beer gardens in Richmond,Virgina. At the age of nine he joined the Mayme Remington’s touring troupe. In 1891 he had joined a traveling company, performing as a…

Free is the sound we make and judge is what minds do. I have been learning how to improvise on my guitar for almost a year now through the methodologies of jazz music, in which improvisation plays an integral role. Being able to express our thoughts through music is wonderful, and though all musicians express them through the compositions they make and the music they play, there is a particular joy in being able to convey your thoughts into sound with immediacy that attracted me to this…

without the blues, musicians such as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and even AC/DC would not exist. Blues music has had a dramatic influence the way rock music has, and is currently played, heard, and thought of in today's scope of music. For instance, when listening to rock music nowadays, and certainly early rock music, many aspects of that music is derived from blues. One of the most well known and highly used chord progressions…

Shuffle” is the one that I like the most. Even though this song is actually the hardest one for me to distinguish all those instruments with each other. “Boogie Stop Shuffle” is from the Album Ah Um released in May 1, 1959, and it’s clearly is a 12-bar blues. The instruments are including Trombone, Piano, Saxophone, Trumpet, and Percussion. Besides of Charles Mingus, the artists are including Booker Ervin, Horace Parlan, John Handy, and Dannie Richmond. In my opinion, the tempo of “Boogie Stop…

“The future was wide open.” Eddie was an eighteen year old boy who just graduated from high school and moved to Hollywood. When he got to Hollywood he met a girl and they moved in together. “Into The Great Wide Open,” tells a story about the life of a rock star, using a shifting tone, in a realistic. Tom Petty’s song tells a story of the rise and fall of Eddies adventure to Stardom. It all began when Eddie graduated high school and moved to Hollywood. In Hollywood, Eddie got a tattoo. He met a…

over their lives, as a social group. In the 1920’s, African- American women were objectified and stereotyped in the genre of classic blues. This was portrayed during the popularity of classic blues in the early 20th century. However, this genre of music was also used to vessel a contrary message to the trending belief of African-American females. The song “Sam Jones Blues” by Bessie Smith attempts to assert the desired control of their image and careers. Bessie Smith gives a sense of empowerment…

Wayne Dyer once said, "When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way." There are many types of dance, for example, ballet, hip hop, contemporary, jazz, and many more. One specific dance is African dance. There are many different kinds of African dances, because there is more than one ethnic group in Africa. African dance is more than just dancing, it can also be a part of someone religion, tradition, and culture. African…

as ARIA (peaked at number 4), Canada's RPM (placed at top spot), US Billboard Hot 100 (number 1 spot) and Dutch Top 40 (peaked at number 1). A plethora of musicians have done their own covers of this very influential song on the likes of Jonas Blue, The Flying Pickets, Boyce Avenue, Amazing Transparent Man, Vertical Horizon, Mark Wilkinson and Elizabeth Gillies. So far, the most noted certification that Fast Car achieved is from United Kingdom's BPI wherein it garnered a total of 661,500 in…