1940s: Music
The variety of music that was introduced to Americans during the Depression (1929–41) continued to evolve during the 1940s. Blues became electrified and transformed into rhythm and...
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Blues
Blues music emerged in the early twentieth century in the United States as one of the most distinctive and original of American musical forms. It is an African American creation and, like its di...
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In the following essay, Oliver contends that there is no interrelationship between blues music and black literature, for, as Oliver illustrates, while it is true that many black poets imitate the stru...
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In the following excerpt, the author analyzes the music sung by the African-American men hired to help at an archeological excavation in Mississippi.
During May and June of 1901 and 1902 I was enga...
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In the following excerpt, Odum identifies and categorizes the various types of African-American music, dividing the between the spiritual and secular, the latter of which displayed the style and subje...
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In the following essay, Garon traces the use of drugs as related in the lyrics of blues songs.
What follows is intended only as a short and incomplete survey of references to drugs that occur in t...
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In the following essay, Bluestein examines the use of blues and jazz as motifs in the literary works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison.
The use of folklore by American wri...
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In the following essay, Oliver argues that blues music is a legitimate extension of the African-American folk experience, but it is a limited genre as a source for a true ethnic literature.
Lord, t...
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In the following review of Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Study, Tracy takes exception to author Houston A. Baker's assertion that the blues exist solely as an anth...
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In the following essay, Dick links the influence of blues music on the works of Richard Wright with that of his contemporaries Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison.
Of the major twentieth-century A...
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In the following essay, Frost compares the evolution of the sonnet form with that of the blues song.
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Art, as we know, concerns form: symmetry and surprise. And in poetry, no less in modern times ...
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The hardships and upheavals of the African Americans were the basis of the creation of the blues. Since the beginning of the slave trade in America in 1619, blacks have been treated unjustly. O...
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To the Editor:Re “The Real Star of the G.O.P. Primary: Hillary” [Nov. 19]: We’ve just finished with a midterm election and accomplished nothing. Some of the players changed, bu...
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Different day, same result. The Columbus Blue Jackets again had their way with the St. Louis Blues. Fredrik Modin scored twice and Fredrik Norrena stopped 19 shots in the Blue Jackets' second strai...
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Sergei Fedorov had two goals and an assist, and Fredrik Norrena came within a shot of posting his third consecutive shutout in the Columbus Blue Jackets' 5-1 victory over the sagging St. Louis Blue...
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Lee Stempniak and Doug Weight scored and Manny Legace stopped both Columbus shootout attempts to give the St. Louis Blues a 5-4 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night.St. Louis was hea...
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Lee Stempniak and Doug Weight scored and Manny Legace stopped both Columbus shootout attempts to give the St. Louis Blues a 5-4 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night.St. Louis was hea...
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Fredrik Modin and the Columbus Blue Jackets hope their three-game winning streak is a sign of better things to come next season. Modin scored his 20th goal of the season _ and 400th point of his ca...
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