Music offers a soundtrack for life. It has the power to, "to elevate the mind, body and character of individuals and the spirit of the nation as a whole" (Suisman 19). Along with its profound effect on people, music is also derived from endless sources and contains an infinite number of messages and purposes within its given context. Musical genres are often created to standalone as their own entity, but songs are also sometimes intended to represent multiple influences and alternate styles. As exemplified
Gospel Sister Sister Rosetta Tharpe is one of the most important Gospel female Guitar players that came out of the 1930s because in this time it wasn’t common for women to play instruments especially different for black women during the Great Depression also none as The Golden Age and Post Civil Rights Movement. The first national star for gospel music in the 1940”s, Sister Tharpe music is in the Gospel/Jazz/Rock n Roll (Jackson). You can hear some of Sister Tharpe’s most popular song
Women in popular music have created a tremendous history in the wake of feminism. They have made their presence visible by identifying themselves as feminists. Being a woman was hard during that stage. Women were not allowed to do many things due to gender inequality such as the right to vote and to own a property. Therefore, from that moment onwards, women decided to stand up and make some changes. During the early stage of feminism, women developed their skills in popular music to create awareness
When the Blues was introduced, Rock N’ Roll also came about. During the early WWII years, many black people migrated to Chicago from the Mississippi area because that’s where the jobs were. They would make more money in a week in Chicago than they did where they had come from. All blues musicians, amazingly enough, came from about 100 miles of each other. Muddy Waters was, no doubt, one of the top Electric Delta Blues singers. He sold the Blues; he felt absolutely everything in his music. Some even
music age in America, the Age of Rock. Rock was a new style of music that had deep roots lying in African American Blues and Gospel (“The Big Bang! The Birth…”). During this time, new artists began to emerge, such as, The Fats Domino and Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Although artists as themselves were the first to release new rock albums, Elvis Presley holds the title of the Father of Rock or the King of Rock (“Elvis”). Elvis became noticed by the country when he released his hit, “That’s All Right”