12/7/09

"Muddy Waters Quotes." Famous Quotes and Quotations at BrainyQuote. 2009. Web. 07 Dec. 2009. .

This website gave me great incite on Muddy Waters childhood and his feelings about blues. I will use some quotes from this websites for my final project.

Annotation #10

Davis, Francis. The History of the Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People. 2nd ed. Mojo Working Productions, 2003. Print.

Francis Davis talks about the blues from the Mississippi Delta to right after WWII. It talks about influencing Jazz Rock & Roll. The book also talks about famous musicians. Francis Davis is an American author and journalist who taught Jazz and Blues courses and he University of Pennsylvania. The intended audience is most likely students or teachers. This helps with my research by talking about the Blues back-round and influence on Rock & Roll.

Annotation #9

http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~musie139/2009/. A History of Blues in America. Charles Sawyer. Web. 25 Oct. 2009.


Charles Sawyer, the other of The Arrival of B.B. King and blues musician, uses a creative way to tell the history of blues at Harvard University. His class videos basically explain his meeting of B.B. King to his students and other Blues musicians that made a big influence on blues. He has thought his students also about the instruments they used. He briefly explains the where they played and when. He also talks about the person himself and their death (if they died). He methodically puts that person in the time he was big among the country. Usually he talks of the same person in two courses if that person is fairly famous. Sawyer's creative teaching allow the student to get a better understanding of those famous people. This relates to my reaserch by giving facts about famous blues artists that influenced blues.

Annotation #8

http://thebluehighway.com/history.html. A Brief History of the Blues. Robert M. Baker. Web. 23 Oct. 2009.

The article first talks about the cultural influences to blues. It talks about the African influences from Africa and when they we're slaves for Europeans. It then talks about blues becoming popularized in 1911-1914. The artical also talks about being popularized again in the 60s with Blues Rock. It talk about what difines blues through sond, lyrics, and other charecteristics. The intended audience is any student or even teachers. This article relates to my research by providing the backround of blues, by using primary sources.

Annotation #7

http://www.livinblues.com/roots.asp. Blues Roots. Amigo Web Services. Web. 25 Oct. 2009

It gives a brief introduction to blues, giving a big hook. It then talks about its African influence and talks about a Griot which could've been the first person to play blues. Then the article talks about influencial musicians. The intended audiance is probably blues musicians themselves, and the casual reader. This relates to my reaserch by getting a better understanding of who started playing blues.

Annotation #6

Oakley, Giles. The Devil's Music: A History of the Blues. 2nd ed. Da Capo, Inc., 1997. Print.

The book talks about "black" music in America and what African-Americans were going through at the time. It talks about its roots and ow it influenced other cities/towns. The book also talks about the famous Artists. The book talks about how life changed because of blues. This is most likely for a range of readers. This helps with my reaserch by talking about how blues madde a difference.

Annotation #5

Larson, Thomas E. History of Rock and Roll. 1st ed. Kendall/Hunt Company, 2004. Print.

The book talks about biographical information on past and present musicians, composers, bands, producers, and record executives. It analyzes the rock styles from before the 1950s to the present, including a list of the most seminal recordings from each style. This book varies in audience. This helps my research by listing bands and musician that made a change for Rock & Roll.

Annotation #4

http://www.purplebeech.com/blues/. Uncensored History of the Blues. Mike Rugel. Web. 25 Oct. 2009.


The website is based on blues. It talks about songs and the lyrics and the artist. It talks about different historical facts. It also gives some facts that most people do not, such as ones that people would want to be "censored". This is most likely for adults and teachers and even college students. This relates to my reasearch by giving facts that good benefit my report and musicians that inspired the blues.

Annotation #2

Friedlander, Paul, and Peter Miller. Rock & Roll: A Social History. 2nd ed. Westview, 2006. Print.


The Book focuses on Rock & Roll from the early 50s to now. It talks about Punk, New Wave, rap, metal, and 90's grunge. The book gives the origins of Rock & Roll and talks about artists that highly contributed to Rock & Roll. The author has done the Rock & Roll: A Social History series. The audience could range from teacher to student. This helps with my research by showing how the earliest rock, blues, evolved into Rock & Roll today.

Annotation #1

Altschuler, Glenn C. All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America. 1st ed. New York: Oxford UP, Inc., 2003. Print.

The book talks about the rise of Rock & Roll and the controversy it started. It talks about the birth of Rock & Roll and how blues influenced. It talks about how Rock & Roll changed American Culture. The audience varies. This helps my research by talking about controversy for Rock & Roll.

topic sentence

Blues music was very influential not to only rock-and-roll and hip-hop but it influenced the very world around it, from helping oppressed African Americans express their feelings to giving people enough hope to fight for equality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920s tought me alot about the 1920's
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/decade/1920.htm tought me about how the inventing of the radio affected blues and jazz
http://www.yelp.com/search?find_loc=Philadelphia%2C+PA%2C+USA&cflt=jazzandblues showed me some possible places for me to interview people that may know how jazz and blues ties into philadelphia

B.B. King a blues guitar great.

today i started to research about the twenties and how the music of the twenties have been affected by the blues. Jazz which is a type of music that been highly influenced by blues, was the music of the time. The twenties were even named after the music "The Jazz Age". It was a great time for music, America was on an economic incline, which gave many musicians the opportunity to come up and get noticed. Another thing that helped out the blues/jazz music scene was the prohibition of alcohol. It caused the opening of speigiezies(a secret bar) were music needed to be played to entertain the customers.

NHD for today

i learned that blues started in the 1890's. Blues was strongly influenced by slave and work music as well as folk songs. I also learn that in the early 20th century a lot of the Blues were made using the "a-a-b sequence". This was done by having one lie, a repeated twice then followed by another line, b.

Service learning

One thing I think would be helpful to others would be going back to my old school and talking to the 8th graders about high-school. I wish i talked to 9th graders before I entered high-school. I did not relive how important grades were until i came here so if somebody would have told me that last year i may have been more prepared.

Rights

My three rights
1.You have the right to protect your own property
2.You have the right to education
3.You have the right to go where ever you wish.

Bill of rights.

1. The bill of rights are basic rights of united states citizens.
2.The three most important rights to me are the First, Fourth, and the 7th amendments. They are the most important to me because I have a strong opinion on most things so the first amendment helps me their. The fourth amendment is just something that makes me feel safe because i know that my property is safe. And the seventh amendment is good because one judge could have a unfair opinion of the defendant.
3.Rights have changed allot over over the last 200 years including equal rights of females and minorities.
4.One thing that i would add to the bill of rights would be the right to defend your property because the laws don't fully protect people against break-ins and robbery .
5.I pretty much agree with the 10 amendments.

Personality

Personality to me is how things affect people, how the enviorment    affects a person and how a person views their surroundings. Personality has to do with every single dissuasion every single person makes. I think that personality is one of the most influential parts of the human anatomy(that is except for organs). In my opinion personalities are curses disguised as blessings. Sure they give us the ability to make our own choices but it is also what gives other people reasons to push around other (at least in their mind). Because someone thinks differently or likes different things people feel the need to treat them differently. Just because I wear Tripp pants and listen to metal music i am automatically stereo-typed as some "emo" or goth kid. It is stupid why don't you get to know me before you start to judge me.

World Problem

One problem that i think affects the world is greed. Greed is one of the roots of all fighting in the world. If their was no greed in people then nobody would be compelled to kill their neighbor because he wants to claim his neighbors property. Their would be no reason to rob someone walking down the street. As soon as we put a value on something their is going to be somebody who wants it. This isn't a problem unless their is not enough of that now valued item, even if just one person doesn't have one over time jealousy will spawn .

 At this point people start t argue about who is the owner or who gets to use this item. Disputes like this as you probably know if not handled in the right way can escalate into something much more. Soon their will be groups that are oppressed that will want to be treated fairly. One example of this is in America after slavery was abolished African Americans still did not have the same rights as the Caucasian citizens did. So in that case the valued possession would be rights. To combat the oppression the African Americans protested so that they could be treated equally. The only possible way that i can conceive to stop greed would be to take all worldly possessions and return human beings to a state of nature. I do not think this is possible but it would be nice