musicians as Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb, Ted Daffan, Bob Wills, Jimmie Davis, and Jimmie Rodgers, performers whose radio and recording popularity were widespread throughout the South. Black blues singers Booker (Bukka) White, Big Bill Broonzy, Arthur (Big Boy) Crudup, Otis Spann, B. B. King, John Lee Hooker, Chester (Howlin' Wolf) Burnett, Jimmy Reed, Earl Hook, and McKinley (Muddy Waters) Morganfield also held fascination for the young Presley d... ... middle of
grew immensely. The songs I Wonder When I’ll Get to be Called a Man and Black, Brown and White, composed by William “Big Bill” Broonzy, illustrate the impertinence felt by African Americans from the rest of America. Ultimately the genre,
1. Evolution of the Blues in Music Blues refers to the music genre that originated from the African-American societies mainly from the deep southern region of the United States in the late 19th century. The blues form of music is characterized by notes that are played gradually bent or flattened. The blues notes comprised 12 measures or bars. These notes are used in jazz music, rhythm and blues. The inventors of the blues included slaves and the descendants of the slaves. There is a general belief
Imagine working your whole life and being so dirt poor you struggle to live in a cruddy apartment. Depending on how rich you started out being, and how popular you became, that’s how it was in the sixties and still is today (although it’s a little better) in the music industry. Iggy Pop is a musician and song writer from the sixties. He was the lead vocalist in The Stooges band and has done solo work recently, as well as been a radio jockey for the past few years, having his own air time with the
Southern Musical Tradition and the African Tradition The second major tributary of the southern musical tradition comes from the African continent and is the heritage import of the five million slaves brought to North America against their will to provide the bulk of the labor in the pre-industrial agrarian south. Contemporary blues, while not exclusively black music by any means, remains largely black in terms of its leading performers and, to a lesser extent, its listening audience.
Jazz and Blues Music of the American South and New Orleans Music may be believed to be one of the most ancient kinds of art. Music appeared when the world was created. It existed in sounds of nature like singing of the birds, the sound of waves, the wind songs. Yes, music has a long history and in different periods a lot of artists found their inspiration and satisfaction in music. Music has great power: it may cheer up or upset, it may bring back the feelings which a person felt, it may influence
On July 5, 1954, forty-nine days after the Supreme Court handed down the decision on the Brown vs. Board of Education case, a nineteen year old truck driver recorded an Arthur Crudup blues track called “That’s All Right Mama” (Bertrand 46). Memphis disc jockey Dewey Phillips found the cut and played it on his radio show a few weeks later. He received calls all over from people, mostly white, who wanted to hear more. He quickly located the musician and brought him into the studio for an interview