Later His father was hit with polio and the family returned to his mother's home town, Hibbing, where Zimmerman spent the rest of his childhood. Robert Zimmerman spent much of his youth listening to the radio. First to blues and country stations broadcasting from Shreveport, Louisiana and, later, to early rock and roll. Bob Dylan started writing poems at the age of ten he also taught himself to play the piano and guitar. His first musical inspirations were by such talents as: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard.
Rock & Roll history Where did this type of music come from? The rhythm of rock and rock is from Africa. The immediate origins of rock and roll lie in the late 1940s and early 1950s through a mixing together of various popular musical genres of the time. These included gospel, folk music, and the blues - particularly the electric forms being developed in Memphis, Chicago, New Orleans, Texas, California, and elsewhere - piano-based boogie woogie, and jump blues, which were collectively becoming known as rhythm and blues. Also in the melting pot creating a new musical form were country and western music (including Western swing and influences from traditional Appalachian folk music), jazz, and gospel music.
Lydia K G1 MYP MUSIC G1 JAZZ & BLUES RESEARCH TASK 1. JAZZ - Dixieland After the American Civil war ended in 1865s, lots of brass band family instruments such as trumpets, trombones were left behind by the soldiers. Then, these were found by the wandering AfricanAmericans and they taught themselves to play these instruments. They form bands and performed in funerals and processions. These bands used to be called as ‘New Orleans Jazz’.
Underground Atlanta is a historical landmark in the downtown area of Atlanta, Georgia. Located on Alabama Street, this area stemmed from a rail line built in the early 1800s then helped house wounded Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Into the late 1800s this area was the foundation for the growing city of Atlanta with the opening of a repaired train station, banks, hotels, saloons, and more. During the Civil Rights movement in the mid-1900s the area of Underground Atlanta was a support for activists such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 1968 Underground Atlanta, with its five-block area, was claimed as a historical site by the Atlanta Board of Aldermen.
Berry’s friend Ira Harris taught him new guitar techniques that became the basis for the Chuck Berry sound. On a trip to Chicago, he hooked up with his idol Muddy Waters who sent him over to Chess Records to make a record. Berry had no recordings of his own and had to return to St. Louis to put some music together on tape. One of those songs was “Maybelline” which would become his first big hit. 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.
Haynes received his BA form Nashville, Tennessee’s, Fisk University in 1903. In 1904, Haynes earned a MA in Sociology from Yale University. While studying at the University of Chicago during the summers of 1906 and 1907, “Dr. Haynes became interested in social problems affecting black immigrants from the South.” (NASW Foundation, n.d., para. 2).
They first joined together as the Polka Tulk Blues Company. They quickly changed their name first to Earth. Then, in 1969, to Black Sabbath which was the name that stuck. The name came from the title of a song written by bassist Geezer Butler, a fan of
Where did Folk Music Come From? Folk music originally came from the black slaves of America when working all day long, some of the songs we still know today, like ‘down by the riverside’. The songs were about overcoming hardships and struggle. Another song would be ‘We Shall Overcome’ which was one of the bases for Martin Luther Kings speech. There were also different types of folk music even before the American slave era, the songs based from different melodies told stories and were passed down generation by generation.
Recently diseased Amiri Baraka discusses the emergence of the Blues through the history of African slaves music’s transformation during the generations in America in an excerpt of his book Blues People: Negro Music in White America. The author begins by addressing the cultural customs of the African music and the alteration that the slaves had to do to it in order to appease their white masters. Following, Baraka continues by analyzing some of the mixed-language working songs of the second-generation slaves in America. Finally, he goes over the differences between African and Euro-American culture, the difference between each one’s musical technicality, and lastly the difference between the two cultures cannon of beauty. The excerpt brings