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.
The final exam will discuss the struggles African Americans encounter for civil rights during the 1950s thru 1980s. The attitude Malcolm X had in the civil rights and the issues that others had with Malcolm X philosophy in achieve equal rights for African Americans. Also, there will be great details in Martin Luther King Jr. and others philosophy in achieving equal rights for African Americans. The overall outcome of the civil rights movement in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the death of the most important Black leaders of this country. To pin point the beginning of the civil rights movement depends on who and what is being discussed.
It is evident that the Black Americans have long been considered a large and significant ethnic minority of the United States population. The African-American ancestors were mostly brought to America to work as slaves to serve the White Americans who at that time were considered the superior race. These slaves were mainly shipped from West and Sub-saharan Africa bringing with them polyrhythmic songs from hundreds of African ethnic groups. That is when African music was introduced to Western music, creating at first a fusion from both worlds and evolving through the decades which developed into today's most popular music, listened and appreciated all around the globe. Our main goal and focus is to trace the development of Afro American musical styles and learn about their pioneers.
The author takes the reader through the rise and fall of Tuskegee, Alabama in its attempts to become the model-community for race relations. Throughout the book Norrell hits on key components of the civil rights movements like African-Americans being discriminated against by the registrars of Tuskegee. Also, he includes things such as the change in the leadership that would lead to not only to the fall of Tuskegee but eventually the exhaustion of the people’s efforts, both White-Americans and African-Americans, to become the model-community for race relations. Robert manages to get the truth across to readers but he also manages to stay unbiased throughout the entire book. All in all, this is a great book that I will use and further recommend to readers in the
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
Du Bois 1897 Atlantic magazine essay, “Strivings of the Negro People”-later republished, with revisions, in The Souls of Black Folk (1903)-in which Du Bois spoke of an African American “double consciousness,” a “two-ness” of being “an American, a Negro; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder (Bruce 3). Du Bois uses the idea of double consciousness to distinguish issues of race. In The Souls of Black Folk, arguably W. E. B. Du Bois’ most famous work, he introduces and addresses two main concepts that describe the quintessential Black experience in America- the concepts of “the veil” and “double-consciousness.” Though Du Bois uses these terms separately, their meanings and usage in his works is deeply intertwined. These two concepts gave a name to what so many African-Americans felt but previously could not express due to a lack of works to accurately describe their pain.
According to Du Bois the prejudices of white people elicit “self-questioning, self-criticism, and lowering of ideals” among black people. The internalization of anti-black sentiment from the outside world thus begins to shape the black American experience. Through the concept double consciousness DuBois becomes better able to explore the social problems he studied in his earlier work “The Philadelphia Negro”. Double consciousness also creates an element of conflict within the black American, as they struggle (often unsuccessfully) to reconcile their identity as a black person and as an American citizen. Dubois cites the example of the black artisan in “The Souls of Black Folk”.
Uncle Tom’s cabin was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book was about the life and hardships of a slave in the south. It contributed to political and economical arguments on slavery. Many believed that Stowe was wrong in writing the book which also led to more arguments. Also, another important cause of the civil war was issue of slavery in the territories that was dividing the North and South.
King delivered one of the greatest speeches in American history. His speech has made a strong impact on the hearts of Americans about how badly African-Americans were being treated. King’s purpose of the speech is to provoke America to give African-Americans their promised freedom. Within the speech, King uses word choice, repetition, and metaphor to promote his main ideas. King uses word choice to contrast the negative past and present that the African-Americans have faced with the positive anticipated future.
However, I didn’t know much about county music. Through this research, my understanding of country music reached new levels. To begin with, I have to know what country music is: Country music is a blend of popular musical forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, hokum, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s. The term country music began to be used in the 1940s when the earlier term hillbilly music was deemed to be degrading, and the term was widely embraced in the 1970s, while country and western has declined in use since that time, except in the United Kingdom, where it is still commonly used.