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Gass, Dr. Glenn. "Z201/History of Rock Music I:." Indiana University School Of Music. Web. .

This author of this site is the Indiana School Of Music. Dr. Glenn Gass talks about the roots of rock, up to the "British Invasion", which was basically after the United Kingdom got introduced to rock and roll and began to make there own cover versions of songs, and new British artists started to form like The Beatles. this is a very helpful site, and it gives alot of information about Rock And Roll and is roots and its influences.

Annotation #2

www.scaruffi.com/history/long.html/

This website is very informative. The author Pierro Scaruffi give tons of information, and tons of links. This secondary source backs up every piece of information, and has facts instead of biased opinions.

Annotation #1

http://www.purplebeech.com/blues/

A got a lot of information from this site. It tells about how the hard times a the African Americans have been put through during the 1900's, inspired that form of music. And a lot of artists began to address racial and political issues. This is a very good secondary source because it and backs up all its information with facts.

Blues music made a huge impact on not only on the African American culture, but all over the world. Although the blues came from hard, negative times, it made a huge positive impact in the music culture. It inspired many different genres of music, like rock and roll, punk, hip-hop, and jazz. 

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Info From http://www.history-of-rock.com/blues.htm


The blues form was first popularized about 1911-14 by the black composer W.C. Handy (1873-1958). However, the poetic and musical form of the blues first crystallized around 1910 and gained popularity through the publication of Handy's "Memphis Blues" (1912) and "St. Louis Blues" (1914). Instrumental blues had been recorded as early as 1913. During the twenties, the blues became a national craze. Mamie Smith recorded the first vocal blues song, 'Crazy Blues' in 1920. The Blues influence on jazz brought it into the mainstream and made possible the records of blues singers like Bessie Smith and later, in the thirties, Billie Holiday

In the early nineteen-sixties, the urban bluesmen were "discovered" by young white American and European musicians. Many of these blues-based bands like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Canned Heat, and Fleetwood Mac, brought the blues to young white audiences, something the black blues artists had been unable to do in America except through the purloined white cross-over covers of black rhythm and blues songs. Since the sixties, rock has undergone several blues revivals. Some rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eddie Van Halen have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles. While the originators like John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and B.B. King--and their heirs Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, and later Eric Clapton and the late Roy Buchanan, among many others, continued to make fantastic music in the blues tradition. The latest generation of blues players like Robert Cray and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others, as well as gracing the blues tradition with their incredible technicality, have drawn a new generation listeners to the blues.

( more information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues )

The term "the blues" refers to the "the blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colman's one-act farceBlue Devils (1798)

( some information from wikipedia.com)

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads

The topic my group and i chose, was the history of blues.

We chose this topic, because we all have love different types of music, and blues was basically the foundation of all music like jazz, hip-hop, rock and tons more.  

Since blues is a very broad topic, we are going to have to narrow it down, 

to maybe blues in philadelphia. And and were going to research the culture of it, and what music was inspired by it.

Do something ideas

There are many ideas on Dosomething.com, but i believe, that "Save The Music" , is the most important group idea. Music is very important in our lives. Music allows us to be different, its what separates people, and also whats brings us together. I dont know how to do it yet, but i really want to get a legit music class in school.