English 11 Honor 3 January 2012 Mississippi Trial 1955: Character Analysis Hiriam Hillburn was a boy who grew up in Greenwood, Mississippi with his grandparents. Hiriam and his grandfather were very close. He loved his grandmother’s cooking and going to his grandfather’s plantation. When he was seven his grandmother died out of the blue and his grandfather became very ill. Once he turned nine, his father came and took him from Greenwood. Hiriam then moved to Tempe, Arizona.
Elvis Presley Elvis Presley was one of the most famous singers in all of America in the 20th century. Elvis Presley was born in a two bedroom house in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935. He’s full name was Elvis Aaron Presley. He had a brother named Jessie but had died at birth. He got his first guitar on January 8th 1946 when he was 11 years old.
He began to master the alto saxophone by the age of thirteen. The first ensemble Lester played in was with his family. The family band would play at carnivals and other different events. By 1927 Lester departed with the family band and took his talents elsewhere. Once he left his family’s household he explored other bands and first settled with Art Bronson’s Bostonians.
His older brothers played musical instruments, and sister sang in duets. His family was religious and attended a Baptist church where Buddy Holly sang. When Buddy was five, he won a singing contest and won five dollars. At age eleven Buddy began taking piano lessons, but switched to the steel guitar, after twenty lessons, he switched to acoustic guitar. In 1951 Buddy met Bob Montgomery, a seventh-grader at Hutchinson Jr. High, who also played guitar and sang.
Vickie Pleake Professor Spencer English 121 18 June 2013 Elvis Presley’s Career Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo Mississippi on January 8, 1935 in his parents’ home. He was a twin at birth but his brother Jessie Garen, was stillborn. The home Elvis was born in was built by his father, Vernon, for $180.00. Elvis came from humble beginnings, he grew up in poverty. While growing up and through his adult life Elvis was close to his mother, Gladys.
He had a twin brother named Jessie but he was stillborn leaving Presley as a only child (Elvis.com). His parents were Veron and Glady Presley (Gentry p.25). When he was three years old his dad went to jail putting them in hard times (Gentry p.28). On Saturdays Presley would sing on the radio station WELO'S called ''The Saturday Jamboree'' (Grentry p.35). He enjoyed singing to his friends (Gentry p.36).
So King’s Sr. mother feared that he was going to be punished or killed, she made him get on a bus to Atlanta, Georgia (Sitkoff 7). In Atlanta he began working at a tire plant and became a pastor at a local church in the black community. At the Church he imitated the gestures of his child hood pasture, because he had an education of a fifth grade level. At the age of twenty King, Sr. went back to school and worked at the Rail Road Yard for income. King, Sr. obtained his high school diploma and became the assistant pasture of Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
The difference between these two styles involves artists, major composition and influence. Through these three areas, the development of ragtime and blues greatly affect the revolution of jazz. The individual experience of artists can both affect and reflect the main characteristics of a music style. Ragtime dominated American popular music for nearly two decade from 1890s to 1910s. During this period, Scott Joplin, noticed as the most influential pianist to ragtime, was born into a typical Africa-American family in Northeast Texas, whose father had been a slave.
Actually he is one of the “origin” musicians of Rock n’ Roll whose music style is a mixture of Blues, country music and Rock n’ Roll. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Berry pursue his interest in music from an early age and he gave his first public performance in 1941 while still at high school. By early 1953 Berry was performing with Johnnie Johnson's trio, starting a long-time collaboration with the pianist. Although the band played mostly blues and ballads, the most popular music among whites in the area was country. Berry wrote, "Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering 'who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?'
James Osborne also known as “Jimmie Osborne” was born in 1923 in Winchester, Kentucky. This famous "Kentucky Folk Singer," was a popular country singer who was readily organized for his work after war world two. Coming from a farm background, Osborne worked in defense plants, but also played music during weekends.According to Lambert (1996) , Osborne began to rise as he started to sing and play the guitar .In 1940, after graduating from school; he got married to Margaret Lacy, and shortly after worked in WLAP in Kentucky. In I946, Jimmie was known as a folk singer as he worked with the Bailes Brothers in Louisiana, and signed with King Records. He released his first hit “My Heart Echoes” with great success.