St. Louis Blues

Above Water Brittanie K’la Buggs is also known as K’la the Lyricist. She was born in Gary, Indiana, a small industrial town that also birthed the Jackson siblings. She moved to Atlanta to pursue music with one of her friends and began working with Anthony Tate. She released two mixtapes. I really love how inspirational her music is. She is a good role model for young women and never presents herself in a trashy manner. The song Above Water is off of her mixtape titled Everyday People. In this…

The sound of the band starting, the scream of the vocals and the cheers of the audience all around. Heavy metal is a mainstay in the music industry since its start in the 60's and 70's, with bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath leading the way. Since the beginning of heavy metal many critics have disapproved and wrote it off as a musical genre. Against the odds of surviving as a genre the heavy metal scene won and is still a popular genre with many from teens to to adults all over the world…

black community. During this time period, black people expressed themselves in new ways, through art, music and writing. Bessie Smith was one of the highest paid black performers during this time and sang many popular hits, like “Backwater Blues” and “Downhearted Blues”. She was born in Tennessee in April, 1894 and had six siblings however, their parents died while Bessie was still a child. Bessie began singing in the streets with her brother and after performing a few places was discovered…

When a person thinks about country and rap, they would think these two genres were polar opposites. As much as these two genres contrast, they compare as well. This essay will show the audience what is different between the two genres and what is similar between the two genres through the genre’s historical background, the genre’s musical elements, and the genre’s social impacts on the world. Country is a “homegrown American art form that originated in the southern United States in the 1920’s”…

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 One of the most recent censuses shows that the current use of the word minority will soon be outdated.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…

Music has evolved for many years and it has always been the key element of culture. When music first started evolving, people would design their own beats and styles to represent them as a group; however, when the world started evolving there was more equipment to use, such as drums, guitars, computers, pianos, bass player, and etc. Music helps construct self-images of people and express emotions within a group of people. Hip hop and rock and roll are two types of music genres that are capable…

today. Yet another type of music derived from folk music is blues. Blues music is defined as a type of folk music devised by African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century. Blues music originated on Southern Plantations and began to evolve once the music moved from the Southern states as early as 1930. Predominately blues music emphasized overcoming hard luck, personal adversity, and riding oneself of frustration. Blues music is also known for freely expressing…

In earlier years, black people plays blue, and white people plays country music, they have their own audience, black people does not have high social status, they were been treated as slaver, they could not get good education, good jobs, they do not have the right they deserve, in The '50…

To me, genius is finding your base as an artist, then bringing and accepting the world around you, then finally using what the world gives you to your own advantage with your base as an artist in mind. Looking back through out history of all art, all geniuses do this which sets them apart from everyone else. Their impact, whether it’s negative or positive, will have a huge impact and change the course of their art form. For the Latin community, this impact sometimes came with a invigorating…

September 23, 1930 and he died on June 10, 2004. His music was a huge hit during the 1950’s. He was a great jazz composer to many because he was blind. He was able to play the piano extremely well for being blind. He loved composing making soul, blues, and jazz music and the people loved listening to it. Some people even called him “The High Priest of Soul". In 2004, the Rolling Stones named their top 100 favorite music artists. They ranked Charles at #1 on their list. Many consider Ray…