Annotation 10 - Blues Music

Altschuler, Glenn C. All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America. 1st ed. New York: Oxford UP, Inc., 2003. Print.

 

The book talks about the rise of Rock & Roll and the controversy it started. It talks about the birth of Rock & Roll and how blues influenced. It talks about how Rock & Roll changed American Culture. The audience varies. This helps my research by talking about controversy for Rock & Roll.

Annotation 9 - Blues Music

Larson, Thomas E. History of Rock and Roll. 1st ed. Kendall/Hunt Company, 2004. Print.

The book talks about biographical information on past and present musicians, composers, bands, producers, and record executives. It analyzes the rock styles from before the 1950s to the present, including a list of the most seminal recordings from each style. This book varies in audience. This helps my research by listing bands and musician that made a change for Rock & Roll.

Annotation 8 - Blues Music

Oakley, Giles. The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues. 2nd ed. Da Capo, Inc., 1997. Print.

The book talks about "black" music in America and what African-Americans were going through at the time. It talks about its roots and ow it influenced other cities/towns. The book also talks about the famous Artists. The book talks about how life changed because of blues. This is most likely for a range of readers. This helps with my reaserch by talking about how blues madde a difference.

Annotation 7 - Blues Music

Davis, Francis. The History of the Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People. 2nd ed. Mojo Working Productions, 2003. Print.

Francis Davis talks about the blues from the Mississippi Delta to right after WWII. It talks about influencing Jazz Rock & Roll. The book also talks about famous musicians. Francis Davis is an American author and journalist who taught Jazz and Blues courses and he University of Pennsylvania. The intended audience is most likely students or teachers. This helps with my research by talking about the Blues back-round and influence on Rock & Roll.

Annotation 6 - Blues Music

Friedlander, Paul, and Peter Miller. Rock & Roll: A Social History. 2nd ed. Westview, 2006. Print.


The Book focuses on Rock & Roll from the early 50s to now. It talks about Punk, New Wave, rap, metal, and 90's grunge. The book gives the origins of Rock & Roll and talks about artists that highly contributed to Rock & Roll. The author has done the Rock & Roll: A Social History series. The audience could range from teacher to student. This helps with my research by showing how the earliest rock, blues, evolved into Rock & Roll today.

Annotation 5 - Blues Music

Rugel, Mike. "Uncensored History of the Blues." Uncensored History of the Blues. Web. 25 Oct. 2009. http://www.purplebeech.com/blues/.

The website is based on blues. It talks about songs and the lyrics and the artist. It talks about different historical facts. It also gives some facts that most people do not, such as ones that people would want to be "censored". This is most likely for adults and teachers and even college students. This relates to my reasearch by giving facts that good benefit my report and musicians that inspired the blues.

Annotation 4 - Blues Music

"Blues Roots." Livin Blues. Amigo Web Services. Web. 25 Oct. 2009. .

It gives a brief introduction to blues, giving a big hook. It then talks about its African influence and talks about a Griot which could've been the first person to play blues. Then the article talks about influencial musicians. The intended audiance is probably blues musicians themselves, and the casual reader. This relates to my reaserch by getting a better understanding of who started playing blues.

Annotation 3 - Blues Music

Scaruffi, Peiro. "A Brief History of Blues Music." Scaruffi. Web. 20 Oct. 2009. .


The article talks about the south and their thought of blues as "negro" music. It then talks about what this "negro" music was to the black people. It talks about the european perspective on "negro" music. The article then talks about the birth of blues and starts to talk about the blues from the 1910s to the 1940s. Peiro Scaruffi is a cultural historian who has done written scientific and philosophical essays and published several books. The intended audience is most likely teachers students and the normal reader. This relates to my article by providing many people and their perspective of blues.

Annotation 2 - Blues Music

Baker, Robert M. "A Brief History of the Blues." The Blue Highway. Web. 16 Oct. 2009. .
The article first talks about the cultural influences to blues. It talks about the African influences from Africa and when they we're slaves for Europeans. It then talks about blues becoming popularized in 1911-1914. The artical also talks about being popularized again in the 60s with Blues Rock. It talk about what difines blues through sond, lyrics, and other charecteristics. The intended audience is any student or even teachers. This article relates to my research by providing the backround of blues, by using primary sources.

Annotation - Blues Music

Sawyer, Charles. "A History of Blues in America." Musie 139. Web. 25 Oct. 2009. .


Charles Sawyer, the other of The Arrival of B.B. King and blues musician, uses a creative way to tell the history of blues at Harvard University. His class videos basically explain his meeting of  B.B. King to his students and other Blues musicians that made a big influence on blues. He has thought his students also about the instruments they used. He briefly explains the where they played and when. He also talks about the person himself and their death (if they died). He methodically puts that person in the time he was big among the country. Usually he talks of the same person in two courses if that person is fairly famous. Sawyer's creative teaching allow the student to get a better understanding of those famous people. This relates to my reaserch by giving facts about famous blues artists that influenced blues.

Thesis Statement - Blues Music

Blues music made a huge impact on the United States, especially the African-American community, by allowing them to express their sorrow and frustration of the United States through music. Blues is one of the most influential music genres and was one of the many arts that helped form equality. Blues was also one of the many genres of music that made a big impact on Rock-'n-Roll, Hip-Hop, and many other forms of music, to this day.

NHD Project - Basic Info

What need in society did the innovation fill and what changes occurred to society because of the innovation?


The Blues grew out of spirituals and work songs brought to North America with the African slaves. Once the slaves were in America, working on plantations toiling through the day, it became customary to sing working songs while out in the fields. These were not songs of joy, but an outlet to express one's misery. With the introduction of Christianity to the African-American slaves, the spiritual became another method of expression and hope. These religious and deeply emotional songs were key in development of Blues.

http://www.livinblues.com/roots.asp



The blues form was first popularized about 1911-14 by the black composer W.C. Handy (1873-1958). However, the poetic and musical form of the blues first crystallized around 1910 and gained popularity through the publication of Handy's "Memphis Blues" (1912) and "St. Louis Blues" (1914). Instrumental blues had been recorded as early as 1913. During the twenties, the blues became a national craze. Mamie Smith recorded the first vocal blues song, 'Crazy Blues' in 1920. The Blues influence on jazz brought it into the mainstream and made possible the records of blues singers like Bessie Smith and later, in the thirties, Billie Holiday.
In the early nineteen-sixties, the urban bluesmen were "discovered" by young white American and European musicians. Many of these blues-based bands like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Canned Heat, and Fleetwood Mac, brought the blues to young white audiences, something the black blues artists had been unable to do in America except through the purloined white cross-over covers of black rhythm and blues songs. Since the sixties, rock has undergone several blues revivals. Some rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eddie Van Halen have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles. While the originators like John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and B.B. King--and their heirs Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, and later Eric Clapton and the late Roy Buchanan, among many others, continued to make fantastic music in the blues tradition. The latest generation of blues players like Robert Cray and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others, as well as gracing the blues tradition with their incredible technicality, have drawn a new generation listeners to the blues.

http://www.history-of-rock.com/blues.htm

NHD Project

The group I'm working with and I's NHD project I will be doing is Blues music. Blues music was really formed in the 1910s it inspired and influenced many other genre and helped African Americans share their voices. Blues is a very influential topic and is still influencing musical genres today. My Basic topic is Birth of Blues and Influence on History.

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