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22.09.2016 @ 15:42 Education » Literary

Crossroads: How the Blues Shaped Rock 'n' Roll (and Rock Saved the Blues)

English | Publisher: Northeastern University Press, 2013 | PDF | 281 pages | 7 MB
The blues revival of the early 1960s brought new life to a seminal genre of American music and inspired a vast new world of singers, songwriters, and rock bands. The Rolling Stones took their name from a Muddy Waters song; Led Zeppelin forged bluesy riffs into hard rock and heavy metal; and ZZ Top did superstar business with boogie rhythms copped from John Lee Hooker.

Crossroads tells the myriad stories of the impact and enduring influence of the early-’60s blues revival: stories of the record collectors, folkies, beatniks, and pop culture academics; and of the lucky musicians who learned life-changing lessons from the rediscovered Depression-era bluesmen that found hipster renown by playing at coffeehouses, on college campuses, and at the Newport Folk Festival.

The blues revival brought notice to these forgotten musicians, and none more so than Robert Johnson, who had his songs covered by Cream and the Rolling Stones, and who sold a million CDs sixty years after dying outside a Mississippi Delta roadhouse.

Crossroads is the intersection of blues and rock ’n’ roll, a vivid portrait of the fluidity of American folk culture that captures the voices of musicians, promoters, fans, and critics to tell this very American story of how the blues came to rest at the heart of popular music.

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Hans Irgend Blumenfeld	Resident	21.04.2014	1585	+329

All modern historians have the same common sense that the 'Blues' generated the 'Rock', but not the Jazz as some idiosyncratic wrote in the past.

The blue was music to the lonely corners, ghettos and has nothing to do with what the whites will later call ghettos, which was never ghetto for blacks.

It is curious to note how the Jazz begins to emerge by people much more cultured and educated than the other way around.

All that began in the churches, 'Eric Robsbawm' comments in his 'History of the Jazz' , that just few kilometers away from two towns in the southern united states, and one developed the gospel choir with in a very syncopated swing and the other not, so the conclusion is that the influence of a single person or a group within the church begins the history of jazz.

Since the blues continues today without evolution, like a polished stone still in the time, singing it's mourn laments, when the whole rock is pure regret, mourn laments, social, political, emotional, self-affirmation, love pain, in other words the same thing of the Blues.

Or, the Rock is the Blues evolution, that influenced a lot all Britain, 'Bob Dylan' firsts works sounds pure Blues.

24.09.16 @ 20:43