The Devil's Music is an outline of the history of blues. It covers topics and the effect they have had on the evolution of blues such as slavery and Black oppression. In this book it showed that it was not purely black people who started using blues (a form of jazz music) to express themselves. In fact, white people played a highly significant role in the beginning of blues and the interpretation of blues we have today. It also spoke of blues in certain places, specifically Atlanta, Georgia and Memphis, Tennessee.
I think I'm going to use some of the things I've learned in this book to further my research in the history of blues in a specific area of the country. I haven't decided which part yet, maybe I will research Memphis or Atlanta or maybe I will go somewhere different and see what the history is in Chicago, Illinois. I'm not sure yet. I'm hoping reading more on the two specific places mentioned will help me decide which place interests me more. I'm definitely leaning toward the history of blues in Atlanta, Georgia and the specific artists that come from there.
Its great to see that you are making headway in the vast world of the blues. It amazes me that is spread so fast, that it shot through the veins of the country with such speed. Keep the train rolling, where ever it my take you
ReplyDeleteI love the title of this post. Blues is just an amazing form of music. There's just, such a raw, bold passion that is carried with it. I would truly love to know the whole history involving the evolution of blues; that'd be an interesting conversation, haha. An area that I, personally would research for blues and jazz would be New Orleans. I'm sure everyone has the same connotation of that place when they hear it. It has such a vast variety of culture, I can't even imagine the people who came walking out of there.
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