American Music

FROM BLUES TO JAZZ TO HIP HOP: HOW

MUSIC CHANGED HISTORY

American Music

Music by Region

American Folk

Folk music is typically of unknown authorship and is transmitted orally from generation to generation.

Native Americans, Slaves, etc. Examples

Bob Dylan Tracy Chapman Joni Mitchell Jack Johnson (Folk Rock)

Blues and Spirituals

Spirituals were primarily expressions of religious faith, sung by slaves on southern plantations. It is a combination of hardship lyrics, sounds that can be made without instruments, and sung on the blue scale

Examples of blues, gospel, and spirituals

Mary Mary Bill withers BB King

Jazz

A kind of music characterized by swung and blue notes, call and response vocals.

Example: Ella Fitzgerald Miles Davis Louis Armstrong

R&B and Soul & Funk

is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel, and blues influences, first performed by African American artists.

Examples: Beyoncé Anthony Hamilton James Brown Michael Jackson Prince

Country

Is a genre of American popular music that originated in the Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the southeastern genre of American Folk music and Western music. Blues modes have been used extensively throughout its recorded history.

Examples Jace Everett Willie Nelson Johnny Cash

Rock

a form that evolved from rock & roll and pop music during the mid- and late 1960s. Harsher and often self-consciously more serious, it was 1st characterized by musical exp. and drug/ anti-Establishment lyrics.

Example Matchbox Twenty Linkin Park Mumford & Sons Wild Cherry

Metal

is a genre of rock music[1] that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States

Examples Alice Cooper P.O.D Korn Slipknot

Hip Hop & Rap & Sub Genres

subcultural movement that formed during the early 1970s by African-American, Caribbean, and Latino youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City.

Examples Jay-Z and Kanye West (Hip Hop/Rap) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Conscientious) Eminem (Rap) Childish Gambino (Hipster Rap)

Electronic/House/Dance

Originating in Chicago, it is repetitive beats, with limited lyrics, and usually synthesized and instrumental.

Examples Scissors Sisters Mystery Skulls D.A.R.E.

Niche Music

Bounce, Gogo, polka, salsa, reggaeton, show tunes Line DancingAnd many others