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While musicologists such as George Mitchell Peter B. Originating in the United States in the 1950s it spread to other English-speaking countries and across Europe in the 60s and by the 90s its impact was.

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. Gary Davis and Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry as well as Cephas Wiggins John Jackson in later years. Another musician who would undoubtedly have been aware of Folkways 1952 box set Anthology Of American Folk Music was the guitarist John Fahey who in the late 1950s was developing a unique fingerpicking style of playing the blues and folk music. Thanks to Mamie Smith female blues artists were in hot demand and one of the first to make her mark was Ma Rainey aka the Mother of the Blues.

Its where country acoustic Delta blues was electrified urbanized and where rock n roll was kindled. The Chicago Jazz Festival is an admission-free. On his own label Takoma in the 1960s and beyond Fahey himself became a formative influence on roots and.

Chicago in the mid-1950s to early 60 was the most seminal era of American music. But even as a child William Billy Boy Arnold was hardly circumspect. Piedmont blues also known as East.

Rock also called rock and roll rock roll or rock n roll form of popular music that emerged in the 1950s. He loved the visceral songs. Rhythm and blues also called rhythm blues or RB term used for several types of postwar African-American popular music as well as for some white rock music derived from it.

A rhythm section of drums and bass with piano may also be incorporated depending on the song or performer. Including Taste of Chicago and the Chicago Blues Festival. Its remarkable that in extraordinary times most who live through them dont realize it.

This form of blues music was developed in Chicago Illinois. Its based on blending the sound of the electric guitar and the harmonica both heavily amplified often to the point of distortion. By the late-1950s it was being performed at US folk music revivals and festivals initially by established Piedmont blues artists such as Josh White Rev.

Described as delta blues amplified artists. The term was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1947 when he was editing the charts at the trade journal Billboard and found that the record companies issuing Black popular music considered the chart names. In 2017 the festival moved from Grant Parks badly aging Petrillo Music Shell and its side stages where it had been held for more than 30 years across Monroe Street to Millennium Park where artists appeared at several performance pavilions as well as at the.

It is certainly arguable that by the end of the 20th century rock was the worlds dominant form of popular music. Female artists owned the blues in the 1920s. Born Gertrude Pridgett in Columbus Georgia in 1886 Ma Rainey began performing in her early teens and would eventually form the brilliantly.

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