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In 1963, Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones, was the first to write a book on the social history of the blues in Blues People: The Negro Music in White America. The British and blues musicians of the early 1960s inspired a number of American blues rock performers, including Canned Heat, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, the J. Geils Band, Ry ...
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...
Music history of the United States includes many styles of folk, popular and classical music. Some of the best-known genres of American music are rhythm and blues, jazz, rock and roll, rock, soul, hip hop, pop, and country. American music began with the Native Americans, the first people to populate North
Amiri Baraka's Blues People: Negro Music in White America is an influential publication, beginning of scholarly study of the views as a symbol of African-American culture and the African-American experience in the United States. [198] [240] [241] It is the first major book of American music history by an African-American author [69] [242]
The blues is a genre of African American folk music that is the basis for much of modern American popular music. Blues can be seen as part of a continuum of musical styles like country, jazz, ragtime, and gospel; though each genre evolved into distinct forms, their origins were often indistinct. Early forms of the blues evolved in and around ...
Piedmont blues [8] Kokomo Arnold: 1901* 1968 Georgia Acoustic blues [9] Barbecue Bob: 1902 1931 Georgia Acoustic blues [10] Ed Bell: 1905 1960s Alabama Piedmont blues [11] Gladys Bentley: 1907 1960 Pennsylvania Vaudeville blues [12] Black Ace: 1905 1972 Texas Country blues [13] Scrapper Blackwell: 1903 1962 North Carolina Urban blues [14] Blind ...
Blues rock had been pioneered in the early 1960s by American singer-guitarist Lonnie Mack, [30] but the genre didn't take off in the U.S. until the mid-1960s, when American bands began to develop a sound similar to British blues and blues-rock musicians.
Music history of the United States Colonial era – to the Civil War – During the Civil War – Late 19th century – 1900–1940 – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s This is a timeline of music in the United States .