“Listening for Willie Mae “Big Mama”
In the reading the author states that predominantly white Americans and Europeans had a deeply felt (if romanticized) connection to the African Americanart form and began drawing on it to create their own music.” Black Artists such as Thurston influenced the next phase of Rock and Roll with their musical style. In the reading it said that artists such as Janis Joplin were greatly influenced from black artists. Thurston also gained exposure to a foreign crown by touring through Europe with predominantly male blues artists. the authors challenge rockist accounts by showing the roots of modern rock music. Artists such as Elvis and Janis Jeplin both directly sampled or were influenced by blues and Jazz music that predated the classic rock age. This challenges the Rockist view of “real music” being unique to one genre. It is difficult for one to make the argument that modern rock and hip hop originated from anywhere besides black artists in the blues genre.
“Notes on Women Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities: Participatory Research, Community Engagement, and Archival Practice.” NANO (New American Notes Online) special issue, "Digital Humanities, Public Humanities." July 2014.
I think that the Women Who Rock archive is an important example of giving recognition to underepresented groups who have had enormous cultural impact. The most intriguing point that I learned reading through this article is the perpetual limbo that female artists are placed in as “almost arriving to the scene.” This is both offensive and inaccurate in my opinion as female artists have been contributing to the development of blues and rock since the early 20th century and before.
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