Blues Essay Examples

All Blues is a member of pieces from ‘Kind of Blue’. There are five pieces, entitled All Blues, Blue in Green, So What, Freddy Freeloader and Flamenco Sketches. The recording features Miles Davis on trumpet, Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley on alto sax, John Coltrane on tenor sax, and a rhythm section made up from Paul Chambers, […]

If there was no racial segregation in the United States during the 1940’s rock and roll may not have been created. Rock and roll had an overwhelming influence on how white teenagers and black teenagers began to intermingle with each other. The rock and roll “movement” forced bigot Major Record labels to change their business […]

  Blues musicians became very popular in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s and early 1960s. British blues soon became a distinct genre, and rock and roll, rockabilly, rhythm and blues and other forms of popular music mixed in the UK, resulting teen crazes such as mod and Merseybeat.By the mid-1960s, British rock dominated […]

Sonny’s Blues, a short story written by James Baldwin in 1957, describes growing up in Harlem in the middle of the 20th century, a time when jazz music was hugely popular and racism in the urban communities thrived. The story describes the relationship between two afro-American brothers as they attempt to understand one another and […]

Among the written accounts about transgendered issues, Stone Butch Blues novel written by Leslie Fienberg is considered to be the finest. It is published in 1993 which tells about the story of a factory worker butch named Jess Goldberg who after experiencing physical and sexual harassment, decided to undergo sex reassignment and become a man. […]

By the 1950’s, the blues had lost it’s primary black audience to soul music, but had gained a new audience of young white kids. To the black audience, the themes of oppression, anger and rebellion were no longer relevant and reminded them uncomfortably of their past history as slaves. In Britain, the popular music scene […]

The first problem that arises in attempting to answer this question is actually defining ‘black music’. Is it music made by black people, for black people, both or neither? And thus what exactly is it that sets it apart from ‘white music’? On a wider scale legally classifying someone as black or white also causes […]

For the black music is a way of life, a way of defining there culture and community. They couldn’t read or write or paint so they sang. This started off in churches when they sang the blues and eventually black jazz clubs became popular. When segregation was in place the whites used to go and […]

Sports play such a huge role in our society; many people form their lives around watching or playing a certain sport. In my house, when football season starts, my dad and brother watch football religiously every Sunday and Monday. On Sundays some of my dad’s friends come over to watch the game, my mom prepares […]

Cultivated music is type of music that is imported to another place or country, whereas Vernacular music is type of music that originally comes from the country. Then, vultivated music in America means that music from other countries that are brought to America. For example: Opera. Opera is a music that originally from Italy. If […]

The Impact of Black Music on the Poetic Works of Langston Hughes The symbiotic relationship of poetry in music is what transforms a beautiful melody into a song for the ages. However there is a similar interplay of music in poetry. Poetry like music evokes powerful imagery and distills the essence of the subject in […]

In all aspects of this world that we know, there is no absolute consistency but in the contrary there will always be the “certain” variety of things. Since we Filipinos are “one but diverse” we all vary greatly in some aspects. But, despite the variations, we Filipinos have a strong sense of belongingness with one […]

Rhythm and Blues (R&B) originated from the blues, just as most African American music derives itself in some form from the Deep South’s work music. In both Hip Hop and R&B, it is with the Blues that they attributed to adhering to, and it is with the Blues that the cadence and lyrics of R&B, […]

John Mayer, a composer and real good singer started to learn about his talent by just tending to listen in the radio and hearing blues types of music. He already gained popularity when he was 19 because he used to play in a lot of different bars particularly those bars which play blues music(FamousDJS. com, […]

With their idealistic storylines and faultless protagonists, fairytales have always had a certain effect on a reader. These fantasies have a way of pulling a reader out of reality, and disconnecting them from true-to-life outcomes. Unlike real life, fairytales never fail to provide a happy ending. For example, as Fay Weldon accurately puts it, “Mere […]

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie follows the story of the rise and fall of a rock and blues band of Spokane Indians hailing from the Spokane Reservations in Washington (Sherman, 3). It is a complex story that explains the complexity of the lives of ordinary Indians. Sherman has used dialogues, which has made this piece […]

The characters in the book sonny blues seems to be physically and emotionally imprisoned. All over the story, the narrator of the book and Sonny seems to be undergoing a great struggle to overcome constant barriers that have appeared in their lives. According to the story, sonny is seen to be imprisoned physically in jail […]

Music and musical genres have evolved profoundly since the turn of the century in the 1900s. Where did the music genres stem from? By what means did these genres evolve over time? To answer these questions, this research paper will take a systematic decade by decade look into the recent past to dig up the […]