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The Blues: The Sound of Rural Poverty
How do the Country Blues reflect the challenges of sharecropping, racial injustice, and rural poverty in early 20th-century African-American life?
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The Blues and the Great Migration
How did the Great Migration spread Southern culture, helping to give the Blues a central place in American popular music?
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The Rolling Stones: Giving America Back the Blues
How did the early Rolling Stones help popularize the Blues?
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The Birth of the Electric Guitar
How did the electric guitar transform Blues music from the 1940s forward?
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Chuck Berry
Why is Chuck Berry often considered the most important of the early Rock and Rollers?
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The Influence of Rhythm and Blues
What did R&B bring to early Rock and Roll, and how was early Rock and Roll different?
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The American Blues in Britain
In what ways did American Blues affect English musicians in the early 1960s?
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Radio Before Rock and Roll
How did radio influence American life in the years before the birth of Rock and Roll?
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The Impact of the Electric Guitar
How did the electrification, amplification and design of the guitar facilitate its emergence as a dominant instrument of popular music?
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Muddy Waters, the New Kid in Town
How did Muddy Waters’ music change after he moved to Chicago, and what does that say about the relationship between place and self-expression?
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Blues, Poetry, and the Harlem Renaissance
How does Langston Hughes’ Blues-inspired poetry exemplify the ideals of the Harlem Renaissance?
