Guitarists such as Blind Blake and banjo players like Charlie Poole inspired musicians with their styles and techniques (“1920s Jazz, Blues, Radio”). Blues was well known in the 1920s and was even quoted in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby; the song “The Sheik of Araby”, written by Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler and music by Ted Snyder in 1921was quoted therein. This same song would be covered decades later in 1962 by the band which would become known around the globe as The Beatles, showing the influence that the music of the 1920s had on decades to come (“1920s Jazz, Blues, Radio”). Apart from jazz and blues, another style of music in the spotlight of the 1920s was the show tunes of Broadway. Broadway was truly heating up in the 1920s, with over fifty
Nicholas Pappas English 102 Definition Paper Final Draft March 7, 2011 Defining the Three Allstars From the 50’s to the 70’s, the music genre called rock and roll evolved and attracted a massive audience. Within this genre, some musicians started to meld country, blues, and early rock influences to make a subgenre that primary focuses on the lead electric guitar progressions and vocalization. This subgenre is called southern rock. Origins of this subgenre lie mostly within southern musicians such as Elvis Presley and Little Richard, who influenced bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival to The Allman Brothers Band and Lynyrd Skynyrd in later decades. Although the peak of popularity was in the 1970’s, there are contemporary southern
I noticed that it a pattern seemed to appear. I saw s folk style music be adopted by a british artist Lonnie Donegan which he turned into his own genre called skiffle. Skiffile became very popular in europe and his music swept the nation in the late 1950s. This music was the inspiration to an up and coming band which became known as the world famous Beatles. They took skiffle and turned it into rock and roll.
Life reproduced the song's sheet music and lyrics in a story about Rodger Young in March 5, 1945. This, and the return of Young's remains in 1949, added to the song's popularity, with several best-selling recordings being made, by Burl Ives and Nelson Eddy among others, by the end of the decade. There is a short mention of Young in Robert A. Heinlein's 1949 short story "The Long Watch". In Heinlein's Hugo-winning 1959 novel Starship Troopers, the troop transport TFCT Rodger Young is named for him and the Loesser ballad is featured prominently throughout the book. At the end of the book after the novel is a "Historical Note" with Heinlein's retelling of Young's citation for gallantry.
Rhythm and blues, which is most commonly referred to as R & B, is comprised of a variety of different but related styles. This title often encompasses such styles as jump blues, club blues, black rock and roll, doo wop, soul, Motown, funk, disco, and rap. The term rhythm and blues was originally coined in 1949 by Jerry Wexler. Throughout the 20th century, R & B has been the largest influence on popular music all over the world. The influence can even be seen in forms of rock, country and western, gospel, and jazz.
In Passage 2, the sentence People all across America—black and white, young and old, listened to songs with lyrics that were intensely honest and personal, songs that told about any number of things that give us the blues: loneliness, betrayal, unrequited love, a run of bad luck, being out of work or away from home or broke or broken hearted (lines 43–47), the author is a. defining blues music. b. identifying the origin of the blues. c. describing the lyrics of a famous blues song. d. explaining why blues remakes were so popular. e. making a connection between the blues and the Civil Rights movement.
In the 30s, as Les Paul was moving up as a professional musician and playing with bigger and better bands, he had an idea. His idea was to build a guitar with pick-ups in order to amplify his instruments appropriately. He tried many ways to do so. His situation was comparable to Thomas Edison’s invention of the lightbulb, in that he tried so many different ways of amplifying this guitar without it sounding like complete rubbish. In 1941, after some success, he came out with “The Log”.
Psychedelic Rock Psychedelic rock is a type of rock and roll music that is inspired by experience when taking drugs. It emerged in the 1960s within the folk rock and blues rock groups. It pushed the boundaries on the way of recording but also with the instruments used. Non-western instruments were often used such as sitars and ragas. This specific genre reached high popularity levels.
Rock and Roll (rock ‘n’ roll) The roots of rock n roll were Rhythm and blues and country music, it came into popular music in the early fifties but is said to have originated in the late forties, because it was influenced by blues so much the instrument line up was usually as follows: - guitar (electric/acoustic), bass, drums and vocals (with occasional brass, similar to blues), because of its blues origin rock n roll often had a call and response section, and was mainly on accented off beats. During the time in which rock n roll was created was just after the end of the second world war, and therefore after the baby boom, in which citizens were encouraged to reproduce as many, many people died in the second world war, because of this sex was an issue that will have been seen more acceptable to talk about and therefore it was okay to sing about which may explain why it was written about By the time rock and roll emerged into pop culture, the civil rights protests were taking place
Inspired by British psychedelic folk and the North-American style of folk rock, Pentangle, Fairport, and other related bands began to incorporate elements of traditional British folk music into their repertoire. Shortly afterwards, Fairport bassist, Ashley Hutchings, formed Steel eye with traditionalist folk musicians who wished to incorporate overt rock elements into their music and this, in turn, spawned a number of other variants, including the overtly English folk rock of The Albion Band (also featuring Hutchings) and the more prolific current of Celtic