Along with the use of the steel guitar the Southerners were inventive with the use of simple instruments such as the metal washboard, spoons, or a metal string nailed to a piece of wood or even the house. ... The first Blues artist recorded in 1917. ... Shortly thereafter the Blues worked its way up the Mississippi River and along the Blues Highway 61. ... Soon it began to variate by name, Texas Blues, Mississippi Blues, and the Piedmont Blues. ... These styles include everything from New Orleans Blues to Electric Swamp Blues. ...

• Word Count: 1380
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Music would not have its beat, and for specific types of music, such as jazz or blues the rhythm meaning would disappear! ... Named Delta Blues, after the "Mississippi Delta" region where the majority of blacks in America lived on plantations, it was some of the first blues to ever be recorded. "Pioneers such as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Mississippi Fred McDowell helped to create a unique and powerful sound that is still popular today." ... Muddy Waters said it best with his song, "The Blues Had A Baby, And They Named It Rock and Roll". Rock and Roll has always borrowed he...

• Word Count: 1385
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Mostly, though, rock music represented a merger between white country and black blues. ... The music of the black working class was blues, which was more about guilt and damnation than country music was. ... (Marcus, 21) Like country, blues never found large scale acceptance outside of black America. ... The song which may have captured his pain best was "Inner City Blues (Make me Wanna Holler)." "Inner City Blues" chronicles Gaye's struggles in life. ...

• Word Count: 2820
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The most common was a strapless, tight-bodice, full bouffant, dress that came in a range of colors of blues to reds. ... On the weekends or hang around the house days the male was seen wearing slacks, Bermuda shorts, a tee shirt, slip-on shoes, or a pair of Levis. ... Utzon, designer of the Sydney Opera House, made the building with a rock like base and covered the shells with tile. ... In the southern United States musician started to try a combination of rhythm and blues and country western, this invented a whole new style of music called Rock and Roll. ...

• Word Count: 2176
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At school the rambunctious boy gets dirty, plays baseball while his sister and her friends, in little skirts, play house with dolls, a miniature stove, washing machine and car. ... The social pressure bearing down on all sides, influenced by the media, by the press, touted in the ladies home journal, if you just do this, you"ll be happy, if you just buy this soap, this house, this washer and dryer. ... Alongside the starched, flattened, white-boy blues came the first inklings of racial integration. ...

• Word Count: 1332
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• Grade Level: High School

By the traveling of the accordion we can see what went on in different houses (families) since he was part of them for a moment. ... The "accordion maker" calls the early blues that he hears in New Orleans bars as "kitchen music" (Proulx). ... If peace is important to us, then the rights actions must start in the house at a young age to try to give a just and none racist education to the young generation. ...

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Hip-Hops roots go far beyond its emergence at 1520 Sedwick Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. ... Much of hip hops quintessence is essentially black in that it pulls from numerous forms of black music, i.e. blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues and soul, each of these genres having origins in the black struggle. ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mellon, that business was sound and that a new era of prosperity was just about to begin but by 1932 hundreds of banks had failed, hundreds of mills and factories had closed, mortgages on farms and houses were being foreclosed in large numbers, and more than 10 million workers were unemployed1. ... These clubs were usually large dance halls, featuring Jazz, Blues, Swing, and Big Band groups. ...

• Word Count: 1986
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Berkman, Ronald Opening the Gates: The Rise of the Prisoners" Movement. Lexington Books: Lexington, Mass, 1979. Bowker, Lee H. Prisoner Subcultures. Lexington Books: Lexington Mass, 1977. ...

• Word Count: 3043
• Approx Pages: 12