Summary of Blues/Rap

A cruel Journey(1500-1800)

• Africa has a lot of music styles and the music was powerful in their life.
• The blues' story begins with Africans, who were brought to The U.S.A.

II Slavery in America(1600s-1865)

• It was really hard for Africans to show their feelings.
• Enslaved Africans could not speak to another one while working.
• Africans passed their cultural and musical practices from one generation to another though the oral tradition.

III Freedom and the Post-Civil war period(1865-1900)

• Freedom did not bring  full equality, there was still discrimination against African people.
• It was rhythmic,highly participatory, and improvisational and also incorporated call-and-response singing.

IV The Blues Take from: Country Blues + Classic Blues(1900-1930)

• African Americans experienced more freedom to travel, more control over their family, personal lives and greater freedom to create and perform music.
• When the Blues started, it was called country.
• There was another style of Blues, which was called Classic Blues.

V Spreading the Blues: The Great Migration(1910-1960)

• While Blues music was taking in the 1900s, times remained hard for African Americans in the south.
• African Americans began migrating to North.

VI in the City: Urban Blues and Rhythm and Blues(1940s-1960s)

• The Urban sound that was developed in Chicago by blues musicians.
• During the late 1940s and 1950s  that the musical community dropped the term "race records".

VII Inspired by the Blues: Soul, Funk and Rap(1960s -1970s)

• There was a period of social turmoil and protest in The U.S.A.
• The music emerged from African American culture, which was called soul music.
• By the late 60s,the political climate in the U.S.A had changed and for many the optimism of the 1960s was finding.

VIII Continuing the Blues Journey

• When the hip hop and rap expanded into American culture, R&B and Soul were still going strong.
• Contemporary artist found a way to add more traditional blues influences into their work 
• Blues Tradition remains alive and well.