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Everybody Talkin' 'Bout A Spoonful: The Blues, From America To England And Back, Edward Giza
Everybody Talkin' 'Bout A Spoonful: The Blues, From America To England And Back, Edward Giza
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
Though the blues are typically considered one of the few uniquely American musical styles, a group of British performers in the 1960s championed the blues to mainstream audiences on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This essay explores the journey of the blues from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago and then across the Atlantic to England. It examines the various changes the genre underwent throughout this journey as well as aspects of the blues that remained static. Utilizing the song "Spoonful " as a common thread between these locations, this essay details how changes in popular opinion , advancements in …
The Emergence Of Bebop: Charlie Parker And His Historical Recordings 1944-1948, Anthony Richard Geraci
The Emergence Of Bebop: Charlie Parker And His Historical Recordings 1944-1948, Anthony Richard Geraci
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
The jazz style known as bebop developed in reaction to the musical, cultural, and historical realities of America in the 1920s and 1930s. Musically, bebop grew out of and away from the elaborate orchestral arrangements of the swing bands of the 1930s through the early 1940s. It fed the musician's desire to incorporate individual improvisation and virtuosity as the focal point of the compositions within a small musical ensemble. An example of a musician who epitomized the bebop style and demonstrated the development of this musical genre was Charlie Parker. By analyzing Parker's Savoy and Dial recordings from 1944 to …
American Popular Culture And The Struggle For Art: Rock 'N ' Roll As Metaphor, David R. Larson
American Popular Culture And The Struggle For Art: Rock 'N ' Roll As Metaphor, David R. Larson
MALS Final Projects, 1995-2019
Contrary to traditional reckoning, Rock and Roll between Elvis Presley and Punk Rock was not a revolutionary genre. It has for years been accorded mythical status, but as my thesis attempts to illustrate, such an aggrandizement of its place in history overlooks and overshadows the complex operational dynamic by which it empowered and was empowered by its audiences. My goal is to relocate Rock from its lofty place as a harbinger of cultural of social and cultural change and place it in the more modest position of that of a historically locatable event within American popular music industry.
Insofar as …