1. FROM BLUES TO
JAZZ TO HIP HOP:
HOW MUSIC
CHANGED
HISTORY
American Music

2. Music by Region

3. American Folk
 Folk music is typically of unknown authorship and is
transmitted orally from generation to generation.
 Native Americans, Slaves, etc.
 Examples
 Bob Dylan
 Tracy Chapman
 Joni Mitchell
 Jack Johnson
(Folk Rock)

4. Blues and Spirituals
 Spirituals were primarily expressions of religious
faith, sung by slaves on southern plantations. It is a
combination of hardship lyrics, sounds that can be
made without instruments, and sung on the blue
scale
 Examples of blues, gospel,
and spirituals
 Mary Mary
 Bill withers
 BB King

5. Jazz
 A kind of music characterized by swung and blue
notes, call and response vocals.
 Example:
 Ella Fitzgerald
 Miles Davis
 Louis Armstrong

6. R&B and Soul & Funk
 is a popular music genre combining jazz, gospel,
and blues influences, first performed by African
American artists.
 Examples:
 Beyoncé
 Anthony Hamilton
 James Brown
 Michael Jackson
 Prince

7. Country
 Is a genre of American popular music that originated
in the Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its
roots from the southeastern genre of American Folk
music and Western music. Blues modes have been
used extensively throughout its recorded history.
 Examples
 Jace Everett
 Willie Nelson
 Johnny Cash

8. Rock
 a form that evolved from rock & roll and pop music
during the mid- and late 1960s. Harsher and often
self-consciously more serious, it was 1st characterized
by musical exp. and drug/ anti-Establishment lyrics.
 Example
 Matchbox Twenty
 Linkin Park
 Mumford & Sons
 Wild Cherry

9. Metal
 is a genre of rock music[1] that developed in the late
1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United
Kingdom and the United States
 Examples
 Alice Cooper
 P.O.D
 Korn
 Slipknot

10. Hip Hop & Rap & Sub Genres
 subcultural movement that formed during the early
1970s by African-American, Caribbean, and Latino
youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City.
 Examples
 Jay-Z and Kanye West (Hip Hop/Rap)
 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis (Conscientious)
 Eminem (Rap)
 Childish Gambino (Hipster Rap)

11. Electronic/House/Dance
 Originating in Chicago, it is repetitive beats, with
limited lyrics, and usually synthesized and
instrumental.
 Examples
 Scissors Sisters
 Mystery Skulls
 D.A.R.E.

12. Niche Music
 Bounce,
 Gogo,
 polka,
 salsa,
 reggaeton,
 show tunes
 Line Dancing
 And many others