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