The long boom in the aftermath of World War II induced a massive migration of the African American population, from rural small towns from the south to urban cities of the north. Along with this transformation of setting there was a simultaneously transformation in blues from acoustic the electrical instruments. The boom of migration increased the demand of blues records. The commercialization of blues records had a tremendous effect of other genres. After then the blues have worked their way into all forms of contemporary music.
The sixties generation had some of the most influential music of our time. These different genres of music from the sixties impacted society in distinctive ways. Folk music brought politics into a new light for young Americans. Along the same lines, soul music exposed society to new thoughts and experiences. Rock music also shocked humanity with harsh lyrics and wild instrumentation.
[citation needed] A few black rhythm and blues musicians, notably Louis Jordan, the Mills Brothers, and The Ink Spots, achieved crossover success;[citation needed] in some cases (such as Jordan's "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie") this success was achieved with songs written by white songwriters. [citation needed] The Western swing genre in the 1930s, generally played by white musicians, also drew heavily on the blues and in turn directly influenced rockabilly and rock and roll, as can be heard, for example, on Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" (1957). [citation needed] Going back even further, rock and roll can trace one lineage to the old Five Points, Manhattan district of mid-19th century New York City, the scene of the first fusion of heavily
Relax, sit back and gasp as I display the rich tapestries of black ghetto. Social Factors As Reflected in classical mythology society is complicated. When blues legend 'Bare Foot D' remarked 'awooooh eeee only my dawg understands me' [1] he created a monster which society has been attempting to tame ever since. Much has been said about the influence of the media on black ghetto. Observers claim it cleary plays a significant role amongst the developing middle classes.
The Black Arts movement and the Harlem Renaissance are both significant time periods in African American history. These time periods gave birth to several unforgettable literature, music, dance, and art .Two poems from those eras that remain popular in today's society are “Black Art” by Armiri Baraka and “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay. Although both inspirational they focused on very different styles and tones. Similarly, the two poems address the same audience in their literature. As seen in many poems wrote during the Black Art Movement, Armiri Baraka directly states his audience in lines “Let Black people understand/that they are the lovers and the sons/of warriors and sons/of warriors” While Claude McKay notes “If we must die—let it not be like hogs/Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,/While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,” McKay 's indirectly indicates that his audience are African Americans.
He repeats the sweltering heat metaphor toward the end of the speech, referring specifically to Mississippi, a state where some of the worst offenses against blacks had been carried out. By specifying states in the south (he also mentions Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and the South in general) and mentioning the oasis that awaits even these places, he magnifies his message of hope to those suffering the
The apparent simplicity of blues music has been played with in a great number of ways along the years. If in the late 1800s, the poor African- Americans used a guitar, a harmonica and a powerful sad voice, things evolved with the adding of blowing instruments, drums and basses at the beginning of the 1900s. Blues music’s evolution was organic, it mend itself naturally to the fashion of the times to become the music that, when listened to, one immediately associates it with America, with all of its history, hardships and diversity of people and feelings. Blues music was born in the South, specifically in the Mississippi Delta, and migrated along with the poor African-Americans to the cultural and cosmopolitan city of New Orleans, Louisiana. These men were seeking for jobs on the docks of the city, trying to escape a very segregated environment where they were still being treated as slaves.
The purpose of this film and the theme of this film go hand in hand because the theme focuses on the feelings of melancholy and despair of the passengers on their journey. Due to this immense dark theme, I feel it has brought motivation to viewers to realize the dark times of slavery. This film went right along with this history course. After discussing the Atlantic Slave Trade in class, The Middle Passage brought life to the things we discussed and shed new light on the harshness of slavery. The Middle Passage is directed by Guy Deslauriers and is narrated by Djimon Hounsou, who plays the spirit of a dead African captive.
Under the bleak condition of slavery, African American used music as a way to stay connected with their own African culture, while expressing the painful experiences that they had throughout history. They expressed their emotions and claims toward the racism they were receiving from white Americans into their music, and that has later on entirely spread among American culture. In Africa, drums were originally used as a tool of communication. During the early slave rebellion in America, they used drums in the same way they had been used in their own country: to communicate secretly in the presence of their owners.
She also uses the narrative technique of flashback to play intricately with perspectives. She raises problems of racism, racial injustice, gender discrimination and loss of innocence. The events of the novel “To kill a mockingbird” take place in the years of the Great Depression in Maycomb, Alabama. Black people were treated badly as people of lower level than white ones. Racial discrimination was running high in the South.