What makes rhythm and blues music

Boogie-woogie pianist Amos Milburn from Houston-a popular performer in clubs around L. By the late s, social and cultural changes were occurring that set the stage for the coalescence of civil rights activism and ethnic consciousness in the decade to come. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded in , employed a strategy of non-violent mass resistance and demonstrations under the leadership of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

In , the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee joined in the struggle to secure voting rights and break down the social and economic barriers of segregation throughout the South. The Black Nationalist agenda of Malcolm X presented a counter-strategy to non-violence in response to racial injustice, and gave rise to the Black Panther Party.

And with the growing opposition to the Vietnam War, it became clear that political sentiments within African American communities were in transition. It was followed by songs that overtly related to the civil rights, ethnic consciousness, and anti-war movements.

In Stax artists participated at an event in South Los Angeles, Wattstax, from which the proceeds were donated to local African American community causes.

Virginia on the constitutionality of anti-miscegenation legislation. Essentially a love song, it did not comment upon any of the roiling civil rights issues of the time—neither the urban riots, nor the persistence of segregation, legal and de facto. The catalog consisted of readings and recitations reflecting black consciousness, and their intended audiences were school systems and churches.

The popularity of the song and its subsequent adaptation and reinterpretation by artists from Otis Redding to Andy Williams to Freddy Fender, the Dirty Dozen Band, and Heart, tell us how the music that speaks about a history of marginalization and exclusion also tells a story about resilience and resistance.

The song had such broad resonance that it ultimately played a central role in shaping mainstream American popular music. Filmed by Gary Francis; edited by Rafadi Hakim. He holds an M. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads.

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