The Civil Rights Movement
1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded
1910 National Urban League founded
1950 Sweat v Painter
1954 Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (Thurgood Marshall)
1955 The Montgomery Bus Boycott (Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King)
SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)
1961 Freedom Rides
1963 March on Washington ("I Have A Dream" speech)
1965 The Voting Rights Act
Memphis
Beale Street
1866 race riots
1870s cholera and yellow fever epidemic
1909 "Boss Crump Blues", W.C. Handy
"Police Station Blues", Peetie Wheatstraw, 1932
"Falling Down Blues", Furry Lewis, 1927
WDIA
"B.B.'s Blues", B.B. King, 1952
"Tiger Man", Rufus Thomas, 1953
Sun Records
Sam Phillips
"Hound Dog", Big Mama Thornton, 1952
"Booted", Roscoe Gordon, 1952
"Cotton Crop Blues", James Cotton, 1951
"Rocket 88", Jackie Brenston (with Ike Turner), 1951
"Blue Moon of Kentucky", Bill Monroe, 1947
"Blue Moon of Kentucky", Elvis Presley, 1954
"Mystery Train", Little Junior's Blue Flames, 1953
"Mystery Train", Elvis Presley, 1954
"Folsom City Blues", Johnny Cash
"Paying the Cost to Be The Boss", B.B. King, 1968
"The Thrill Is Gone", B.B. King, 1970
"Little Boy Blue" Bobby Blue Bland, 1958
"I've Been Wrong So Long", Bobby Blue Bland, 1960
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Week Eight Key Terms
Lester Melrose
Big Bill Broonzy
Memphis Minnie
Sonny Boy Williamson
Leroy Carr, "When the Sun Goes Down", 1935
The Bluebird Beat
Tampa Red, "Don't You Lie To Me", 1940
Eddie Boyd, "Chicago Is Just That Way", 1948
Chess Records (1950)
Leonard and Phil Chess
Muddy Waters
Willie Dixon
Muddy Waters, "I Can't Be Satisfied", 1948
Muddy Waters, "Rollin' Stone", 1950
Muddy Waters, "Got My Mojo Working", 1956
Little Walter, "My Babe", 1955
Howlin' Wolf, "Moanin' at Midnight", 1962
Jimmy Reed, "Baby, What You Want Me To Do", 1958
Jimmy Reed, "Bright Lights, Big City", 1958
Big Bill Broonzy
Memphis Minnie
Sonny Boy Williamson
Leroy Carr, "When the Sun Goes Down", 1935
The Bluebird Beat
Tampa Red, "Don't You Lie To Me", 1940
Eddie Boyd, "Chicago Is Just That Way", 1948
Chess Records (1950)
Leonard and Phil Chess
Muddy Waters
Willie Dixon
Muddy Waters, "I Can't Be Satisfied", 1948
Muddy Waters, "Rollin' Stone", 1950
Muddy Waters, "Got My Mojo Working", 1956
Little Walter, "My Babe", 1955
Howlin' Wolf, "Moanin' at Midnight", 1962
Jimmy Reed, "Baby, What You Want Me To Do", 1958
Jimmy Reed, "Bright Lights, Big City", 1958
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Week Seven Key Terms
The Great Migration
First wave: 1915-1930
Second Wave 1940-1970
1914: 90% of African Americans lived in the South (2/3 rural)
1970: 50% of African Americans lived in the South (2/3 urban)
Why?
Boll Weevil
WWI Ends Immigration
Industrialization
Segregation
First Great Migration Information
Map: The First Great Migration
Map: States of Origin of the Migrants, 1910-1930
Map: The Great Blues Migration
Map: Population Density Changes
Second Great Migration Information:
Map: The Second Great Migration
Map: African American Population Change
Chicago
500,000 New African American Migrants
1915: African Americans - 2 percent of Chicago's population
1970: African Americans - 33 percent of Chicago's population
Map: Subscribers to the Chicago Defender
Article: Chicago Defender Editorial
First wave: 1915-1930
Second Wave 1940-1970
1914: 90% of African Americans lived in the South (2/3 rural)
1970: 50% of African Americans lived in the South (2/3 urban)
Why?
Boll Weevil
WWI Ends Immigration
Industrialization
Segregation
First Great Migration Information
Map: The First Great Migration
Map: States of Origin of the Migrants, 1910-1930
Map: The Great Blues Migration
Map: Population Density Changes
Second Great Migration Information:
Map: The Second Great Migration
Map: African American Population Change
Chicago
500,000 New African American Migrants
1915: African Americans - 2 percent of Chicago's population
1970: African Americans - 33 percent of Chicago's population
Map: Subscribers to the Chicago Defender
Article: Chicago Defender Editorial
Midterm Grading Scale and Breakdown
Grading Scale
A 94-100
A- 90-93
B+ 87-89
B 83-86
B- 80-82
C+ 77-79
C 73-76
C- 70-72
D+ 67-69
D 63-66
D- 60-62
F 00-59
A 94-100
A- 90-93
B+ 87-89
B 83-86
B- 80-82
C+ 77-79
C 73-76
C- 70-72
D+ 67-69
D 63-66
D- 60-62
F 00-59
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Week Five Key Terms
Twelve-bar blues, theoretically:
First line, four bars, in home key
Second line, four bars, travels to different key, returns to home key
Third line, four bars, to yet another key, returns to home key
Blue Notes
Typically flatted third and seventh notes
The Delta Blues
Mississippi Delta Map
Robert Palmer: "Delta blues is a dialogue between the overt and the hidden. The music's apparent simplicity--basic verse forms, little or no harmonic content, melodies with as few as three principal pitches--is superficial. Apparently straightforward rhythmic drive often proves, on careful listening, to be the by-product of a mercurial interplay between polyrhythms, layered in complex relationships. The music's supreme rhythmic masters kept several rhythms going simultaneously, like a juggler with balls in the air or like the most gifted modern jazz drummers. Sometimes the music seems to lie behind the beat and rush just ahead of it at the same time...
"The simplest way to characterize the music's origin is as a turn-of-the-century innovation, accommodating the vocal traditions of work songs and field hollers to the expressive capabilities of a newly popular stringed instrument, the guitar. Older black ballads and dance songs, preaching and church singing, the rhythms of folk drumming, and the ring shout of 'holy dance' fed into the new music as well. But the richly ornamented, powerfully projected singing style associated with the field holler was dominant, which is hardly surprising; the Delta is more or less one big cotton field."
Charlie Patton, "Down the Dirt Road", 1929
Charlie Patton, "Pony Blues", 1929
Skip James, "Devil Got My Woman", 1931
Son House, "Country Farm Blues", 1930
Robert Johnson, "Me and the Devil Blues", 1937
Robert Johnson, "Terraplane Blues", 1936
Ike Zinneman
Paramount Records, Grafton and Port Washington
Wisconsin Chair Company
The Chicago Defender
Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Black Snake Moan", 1926
Meade Lux Lewis, "Honky Tonk Train Blues", 1930
Alan Lomax
First line, four bars, in home key
Second line, four bars, travels to different key, returns to home key
Third line, four bars, to yet another key, returns to home key
Blue Notes
Typically flatted third and seventh notes
The Delta Blues
Mississippi Delta Map
Robert Palmer: "Delta blues is a dialogue between the overt and the hidden. The music's apparent simplicity--basic verse forms, little or no harmonic content, melodies with as few as three principal pitches--is superficial. Apparently straightforward rhythmic drive often proves, on careful listening, to be the by-product of a mercurial interplay between polyrhythms, layered in complex relationships. The music's supreme rhythmic masters kept several rhythms going simultaneously, like a juggler with balls in the air or like the most gifted modern jazz drummers. Sometimes the music seems to lie behind the beat and rush just ahead of it at the same time...
"The simplest way to characterize the music's origin is as a turn-of-the-century innovation, accommodating the vocal traditions of work songs and field hollers to the expressive capabilities of a newly popular stringed instrument, the guitar. Older black ballads and dance songs, preaching and church singing, the rhythms of folk drumming, and the ring shout of 'holy dance' fed into the new music as well. But the richly ornamented, powerfully projected singing style associated with the field holler was dominant, which is hardly surprising; the Delta is more or less one big cotton field."
Charlie Patton, "Down the Dirt Road", 1929
Charlie Patton, "Pony Blues", 1929
Skip James, "Devil Got My Woman", 1931
Son House, "Country Farm Blues", 1930
Robert Johnson, "Me and the Devil Blues", 1937
Robert Johnson, "Terraplane Blues", 1936
Ike Zinneman
Paramount Records, Grafton and Port Washington
Wisconsin Chair Company
The Chicago Defender
Blind Lemon Jefferson, "Black Snake Moan", 1926
Meade Lux Lewis, "Honky Tonk Train Blues", 1930
Alan Lomax
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