talking blues, popularized by Woodie Guthrie, featuring rhyming talking with ironic asides to the audience. ... Individual performances that prefigured rap While rap as a musical genre started in the 80s, there have been many black and white performers who succeeded with rap-style performances in early jazz, blues, pop, and country performances. ... Fish, it's my favorite dish" Champion Jack Dupree's "Big Leg Emma's" (1956), rhyming tale of a barrelhouse raid over slow blues piano: "I went down to Big Leg Emma's house, to get myself a drink of gin, but before I got i...

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The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. ... Hughes's poetry absorbed the rhythms of blues and jazz and the dialect of African American speech that he heard around him. ... In 1926 Hughes published his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, about Harlem life. ... During the Harlem Renaissance, intellectual dialogue, literary and artistic creation, blues and jazz, dance and musical theater came together and flowered as ne...

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Then came blues music, which was different from jazz music because they were stories told through song about life's sadness and misery. Chicago blues music has pianos, bases, electric guitars and harmonicas for a different type of sound. ... Together, Addams and her friend leased a house, built by Charles Hull, which was meant to supply a place of social life, work on educational projects and most importantly, to improve the conditions of Chicago. ...

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We can distinguish six main regions in the United States: New England, the Mid-Atlantic, the South, the Southwest, the Northwest and the Midwest. The Mid-Atlantic is a region of Unites States which consist of seven states: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and West Vir...

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February is Black History Month A full appreciation of the celebration of Black History Month requires a review and a reassessment of the social and academic climate that prevailed in the Western world, and especially in North America before 1926 when Black History Month was established. It is important to recall that between 1619 and 1926, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were classified as a race that had not made any contribution to human civilization. Within the public and private sector, African Americans and other peoples of African descent were continually dehum...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School