Music, the art that has survived capitalism and springs up from every part of the earth and every moment that humans have occupied, continues to express societies, classes, nations, genders, metaphysical beliefs, problems, emotions, happiness and pain. It should not be left on the hands of experts, industries, interests, or government to dictate, to suppress or promote. As a tool, as most arts, crafts, and techniques, should be redistributed to all those below as users and not passive consumers. Everyone can learn music, sing, play an instrument. To do it well takes practice first and a little bit of talent, which we are not convinced of what it really is.
Music has also played a role in popular movements. There has never been any significant social change without some music associated with the movement that caused it, while music for the sake of producing more music has not lived as long, as the music of social history. We found a good introduction to a music genre that survived some real sever oppression to follow basic steps of emancipation and struggle to freedom. The struggle, the living conditions of the past, the pain and suffering of those who sang their way on the narrow path towards liberation, is embedded in their songs.
We Borrowed this From the Music Room
This Primer is dedicated to promoting Rhythm and Blues, but it's clear to anyone with a passing interest in the music that it really doesn't stick to any clear definition of the genre.
Music has also played a role in popular movements. There has never been any significant social change without some music associated with the movement that caused it, while music for the sake of producing more music has not lived as long, as the music of social history. We found a good introduction to a music genre that survived some real sever oppression to follow basic steps of emancipation and struggle to freedom. The struggle, the living conditions of the past, the pain and suffering of those who sang their way on the narrow path towards liberation, is embedded in their songs.
We Borrowed this From the Music Room
This Primer is dedicated to promoting Rhythm and Blues, but it's clear to anyone with a passing interest in the music that it really doesn't stick to any clear definition of the genre.
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| John Lee Hooker |
As a Primer, it's an attempt to illustrate the music, the labels and the artists of a particular style but it cannot lay claim to be a theoretical, academic or scholarly treatise. This is primarily because I am ill-equipped to do it well and there are others who are far better qualified to deliver a definitive history of the form.
So what you'll find below is an emotional and historically flawed account of the music that the Primer promotes, designed to provide a background and context for what you'll find in the real world..
