Blues music is influenced by the culture and views of those creating it, reflects the poverty and despair throughout the southern US, brought the black community together and contributed to modern rock and roll. These concepts will be explored by analyzing performances and interviews from the movie Feel Like Going Home, written by Martin Scorsese. Feel Like Going Home focuses on Delta Blues which originated in the Mississippi Delta region. Delta Blues is one of the earliest forms of blues music and is influenced heavily by the living conditions of the region. One of the most striking takeaways from the movie is the extreme poverty of the Mississippi region and the influence this had on Delta Blues music.
Some common features between them are that they both talked about the hard times. They also effected the urban migration. 3.How were race records marketed? Race records were marketed from African Americans to African Americans. 4.Who was the first to apply the catchphrase "race music" to African American music from the South?
Elvis would live his life feeling guilty for the loss of his brother and some of his music reflected that. After his birth, his mother, Gladys was taken to the hospital due to illness. She would never have another child again. Instantly, Elvis and Gladys grew a relationship stronger than most. His father, Vernon, would joke about it to the public all the time.
Though Copland began writing his music in the mid 1920s it was in 1935 with “El Salón México” that Copland began his most productive and popular years. The piece presented a new sound that had its roots in Mexican folk music. Copland believed that through this music, he could find his way to a more popular symphonic tune. Some agree that Copland’s best works were his scores for ballets. He composed scores for a number of ballets, including two of the most popular of the time: “Agnes DeMille’s Rodeo” (1942) and Martha Graham’s “Appalachian Spring” (1944), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.
Notice the lines that are indented. How does this compare to the “call and response” used in Jazz? When they say “Oh Blues,” and “Sweet Blues!” it’s similar to the responses of the congregation to a minister, when the group says, “Oh, yeah!” and “Say it, Brother!” In “The Weary Blues” there are several examples of personification. List at least two examples. “With his ebony hands on each ivory key he made that poor piano moan with melody.” “O Blues!” In “The Weary Blues” what words set a tone for the poem?
Hoffman’s tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” This is when the ballet was born. This adaptation was more dark and gloomy than the modern day ballet. After the first choreographed version tanked, George Balanchine, another very famous choreographer, created a new version of The Nutcracker. His choreography lightened up the ballet and intrigued and awed the audience. Since 1954, The Nutcracker has been the most widely performed ballet in the world.
The songs feel very poetic for me, and have a certain timeless energy about them. The last band from this group that I would have listened to is Black Sabbath. Some of my favorite songs from this band are; “Iron Man”, “Paranoid”, and “War Pigs”. Black Sabbath seemed to capture many of the hostile feelings toward the government and “the Man” with their hard driving guitar riffs, and controversial
There is the acoustic country blues and the electrified city blues. Three distinctive regional styles-Delta, Piedmont, and Texas blues--evolved into three urban styles: Chicago, East Coast, and West Coast. The blues has two basic musical forms. One form follows a basic A-A-B pattern. The performer sings a verse and then repeats the first line, sometimes with some variation.
The term did not become known, however, until it was used in the chart listing in 1949. It was used for a number of postwar American music (Dean, 1997). Before this term came to use, this kind of music was known as “race music” (Demand, 1999-2011). Blues has been clearly influenced by songs of the Deep South, ragtime, church music, minstrel shows and folk, even some forms of white popular music. The earliest documentation of Blues was cited in the early 1990s.
He wanted to get a point across to the people most of his writing was about how he and other African Americans were treated during the racist period. Uncle toms’ children and the Native son were all related to the to the racial time period. Jim crow laws were still a major problem only allowing “colored” people to be in places labeled “colored” only. Richard Wright was a very passion it man because of his ancestor living in a time of slavery and Wright himself living during racial segregation. During Richard Wright’s life he was married twice.