... such as the metal washboard, spoons, or a metal string nailed to a piece of wood or even the house. Soon after that inexpensive varieties of guitar emerges such as the Stella and Kay. The Banjo, Saxophone, Trumpet, Harmonicas, and the Piano were some of the main instruments used in playing the Blues. American Blues players soon brought the slide guitar into play as well. The first ... Blues artist recorded in 1917. When the musicians played live they tuned their ... clapping, stomping, and call-and-response methods of singing characterized this music. This style of music had a huge inf...

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• Grade Level: High School

... ". With the Civil War came the freedom of slaves in America. During this time a new style of singing and playing acoustic guitar become popular. Named Delta Blues, after the "Mississippi Delta" region where the majority of blacks in America lived on plantations, it was some of the first blues to ever be recorded. "Pioneers such as Charley Patton, Son House, Robert Johnson, and Mississippi Fred McDowell helped ... to create a unique and powerful sound that is still popular today." (Lee) Widely recognized as the "Father of Rock and Roll", Blues music is one of America's great contributions...

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... are Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, and Jacob Lawrence. The future "Lady Day" first heard the music of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith on a Victrola at Alice Dean's, the Baltimore "house of ill repute" where she ran errands and scrubbed floors as a young girl. She made her singing debut ... Finally he returned to New York, and felt as though he had returned home. An outburst of literary activity followed. Hughes's poetry absorbed the rhythms of blues and jazz and the dialect of African American speech that he heard around him. He continued to write and punish in The Crisis. ... He me...

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• Grade Level: High School

... fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. During the 1920's, most women were still expected to stay at home and look after the children. Cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the house and kids was all women were expected to do. Being a housewife and mother were regarded as women's most important duties. Women wanted to be able to have the freedom ... . The Harlem Renaissance was the African American culture. Harlem gave Americans a more clear conscience of the daily lives of the African American citizens and horror or racism. The blacks developed the style of jazz music in N...

• Word Count: 2175
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• Grade Level: High School

... fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. During the 1920's, most women were still expected to stay at home and look after the children. Cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the house and kids was all women were expected to do. Being a housewife and mother were regarded as women's most important duties. Women wanted to be able to have the freedom ... . The Harlem Renaissance was the African American culture. Harlem gave Americans a more clear conscience of the daily lives of the African American citizens and horror or racism. The blacks developed the style of jazz music in N...

• Word Count: 2175
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• Grade Level: High School

... fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. During the 1920's, most women were still expected to stay at home and look after the children. Cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the house and kids was all women were expected to do. Being a housewife and mother were regarded as women's most important duties. Women wanted to be able to have the freedom ... . The Harlem Renaissance was the African American culture. Harlem gave Americans a more clear conscience of the daily lives of the African American citizens and horror or racism. The blacks developed the style of jazz music in N...

• Word Count: 2175
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

... Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. But long before then African traditions established the use of spoken word. Dr. Imani Perry asserts that the spoken word of African-American music has its origins in Africa and survived the middle passage to the ... Western Hemisphere (Perry, 2004). She goes on to say that the history of Black power movement talk and ... come alive within the reader (Williams, 2014). Much of hip hops quintessence is essentially blac...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate