PPT-Blues and Jazz

Creating an American Artform Delta Blues AfricanAmericans in the 1800s sang about the pains of slavery usually without any instruments The first blues music was created along the Mississippi Delta This style is called Delta Blues and sometimes Country Blues. “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”. What are the . . ?. What are the Blues?. The Blues is a musical genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, and shouts and chants.. History of Rock & Roll . Chpt. . 12. The Vietnam War . Vietnam Protest. The Psychedelic Blues . The music of the oppressed race . Made popular by College kids . Jimi. Hendrix. Part Cherokee . From a broken home in Seattle . African American vocal music. Slaves not permitted to bring instruments. Drumming. specifically forbidden. Playing of European instruments permitted. Musicians also served as tribal historians and social commentators. Schedule 8 Juniors Seniors 5:30 - 6:30 and level p lacement (Teresa) 6:30 - 7:30 Jazz (Alexandra) 6:30 - 7:30 Broadway Jazz (Karen) 7:30 - 8:30 Broadway Jazz (Karen) 7:30 - 8:30 Jazz (Alexandra) Wed, MUH 271 Jazz History. Buddy Bolden. "Sometime around 1897, the Charles "Buddy" Bolden band began filling the dance halls and streets of New Orleans with a new kind of music. Instead of following the notes on sheet music like they were a railroad track, Buddy made his cornet an extension of his emotions. To this rough Negro barber, popular melodies were only points of embarkation for funky, hip-swinging improvisation. Some twenty years later this new music would be called . Blues evolved and no one single person is credited with its invention. . Musicologist credit Charlie (Charley) Patton as the first known blues artist. . The Blues begins to travel. With the success of early blues artist, the blues will begin to spread to other parts of the rural south and across the country developing different regional styles and stars. Engelbert 2015. To think about…. Last class we examined multimedia sources about how slavery became the norm in America. It was illegal for slaves to learn to read and write, so they turned. . to. Critic. 'You automatically stop thinking about anything else and listen': . Phillip Larkin in 1966 .  . Larkin ignored . jazz’s development after the bebop revolution of the late Forties. . Bop is “nervous . King of Ragtime. Born in Texas – moved to St. Louis. Maple Leaf Rag. The Entertainer. A Guest of Honor: Lost first opera. Opera: . Treemonisha. (not staged until 70’s). Died . of syphilis. Maple Leaf Rag. Major events in history have shaped the development of Rock Music. Historical Events. Emancipation Proclamation (1862) – freeing of the slaves in the United States. . The slaves had brought with them a strong musical heritage consisting of . Lesson 7 . Piano Man Jazz Intro and Accidentals In this lesson, you will review some piano staff basics and discover how accidentals (sharps, flats, and naturals) affect notes while you learn the Piano Man Jazz Intro. American music. Summary. A . small. . historical. point. Rock’n’roll (teenagers’ music). My favorites. Small historial point. Time of SLAVERY (Africans and Europeans). Emancipation and segregation : the BLUES. L. istening . in George Elliott Clarke’s. . Blue. Black Music as Survival. I have sometimes thought the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character of slavery, than the reading of whole volumes of. Musicologist credit Charlie (Charley) Patton as the first known blues artist. . The Blues begins to travel. With the success of early blues artist, the blues will begin to spread to other parts of the rural south and across the country developing different regional styles and stars.